Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 24
The fakir lived until his infantile preceptor was five years old; then he died at the ripe age of 106 and his tomb may still be seen at Old Hala.
Who acts: fakir, infantile preceptor · What happens: live, be, die, see · To what, where: ripe age, tomb, Old Hala
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 (fakir, infantile preceptor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fakir | det |
| 2 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 old | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 preceptor | nmod:poss |
| 6 | infantile | infantile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 preceptor | amod |
| 7 | preceptor | preceptor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 old | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 old | cop |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 old | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lived | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 died | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 died | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 died | nsubj |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 age | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 age | det |
| 18 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 age | amod |
| 19 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 died | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 106 | case |
| 21 | 106 | 106 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 age | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 seen | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | aux |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 seen | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 seen | aux:pass |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 died | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 Hala | case |
| 30 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Hala | amod |
| 31 | Hala | Hala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 seen | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the fakir | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | fakir's infantile preceptor | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die | past | fakir | at the ripe age of 106; then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | see | may · passive | fakir's tomb | Old Hala | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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