Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 199
Inside the walls were rich houses, countless gardens, and a mighty tower, that served as a landmark for miles around.
Who acts: mighty tower · What happens: be, serve · To what, where: rich houses, walls
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty tower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 walls | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 walls | det |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 houses | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 houses | cop |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 houses | amod |
| 6 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gardens | punct |
| 8 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gardens | amod |
| 9 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 houses | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tower | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tower | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tower | det |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tower | amod |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 houses | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 served | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 served | nsubj |
| 17 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tower | acl:relcl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 landmark | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 landmark | det |
| 20 | landmark | landmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 served | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 miles | case |
| 22 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 served | obl |
| 23 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 served | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 houses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | rich houses and countless gardens | the walls | countless gardens conj; a mighty tower appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | serve | past | a mighty tower | as a landmark; for miles; around property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as landmark=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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