Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 37
Makhdum Nuh became when he grew up, as prophesied by the fakir, a great bird-shot; but he also worked many and mighty miracles.
Who acts: Makhdum · What happens: become, grow up, prophesy, work · To what, where: many miracles
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 (Makhdum), 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 | Makhdum | Makhdum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 2 | Nuh | Nuh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Makhdum | flat |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 grew | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 grew | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prophesied | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 prophesied | mark |
| 10 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 grew | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 fakir | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fakir | det |
| 13 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prophesied | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shot | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shot | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shot | amod |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shot | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 bird | punct |
| 19 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fakir | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 worked | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 worked | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 worked | nsubj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 worked | advmod |
| 24 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 miracles | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mighty | cc |
| 27 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 many | conj |
| 28 | miracles | miracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 worked | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Makhdum | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | grow up | past | Makhdum | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | prophesy | participle | Makhdum not said here | by the fakir and a great bird shot | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | work | past | Makhdum | many miracles | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent miracle=Material |
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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