Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 25

His reputation for independence has survived him and many persons who are in difficulties still visit his tomb and ask the Independent One for his advice.

Who acts: reputation, many persons, fakir · What happens: survive, be, visit, ask, repute · To what, where: fakir, difficulties, tomb, Independent

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 (reputation, many persons, fakir), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 reputation	nmod:poss
2	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 survived	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 independence	case
4	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reputation	nmod
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 survived	aux
6	survived	survive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 survived	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 persons	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 persons	amod
10	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 survived	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 visit	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 difficulties	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 difficulties	case
14	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 visit	nsubj
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 visit	advmod
16	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 persons	acl:relcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tomb	nmod:poss
18	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 visit	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ask	cc
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 visit	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Independent	det
22	Independent	Independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ask	obj
23	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 Independent	flat
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 advice	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 advice	nmod:poss
26	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ask	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 survived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	present · perfect	fakir's reputation for independence	fakir			many persons conj	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Circumstance
2	is	present			difficulties			tree rules
3	visit	present	many persons	fakir's tomb		still		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Co-Agent
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	many persons not said here	the Independent			for fakir's advice	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent independent=Recipient
5	repute		fakir				for independence	nom reputation «state transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 25

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 25