Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 200
About a mile and a half from Brahmanabad was the royal suburb of Dalor in which stood the king’s palace and the quarters of his guards.
Who acts: mile, royal suburb · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: royal suburb, palace
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 (mile, royal suburb), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 mile | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mile | det |
| 3 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suburb | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 half | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 half | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 mile | conj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Brahmanabad | case |
| 8 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 half | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 suburb | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 suburb | det |
| 11 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 suburb | amod |
| 12 | suburb | suburb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Dalor | case |
| 14 | Dalor | Dalor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 suburb | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 suburb | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 king | case |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 quarters | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 quarters | det |
| 24 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stood | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 guards | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 guards | nmod:poss |
| 27 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 quarters | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 suburb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a mile and a half from Brahmanabad | the royal suburb | of Dalor | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the royal suburb | the king's palace | the quarters of BRAHMANABAD's guards conj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
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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