Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 40
When it was completed, the faithful noted with dismay that it did not correctly face the Kaaba.
Who acts: mosque · What happens: complete, note, not face · To what, where: mosque, faithful, Kaaba
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 (mosque), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 completed | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 completed | aux:pass |
| 4 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 noted | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 faithful | det |
| 7 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noted | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 completed | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 dismay | case |
| 10 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noted | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 face | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 face | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 face | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 face | advmod |
| 15 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 16 face | advmod |
| 16 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 noted | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Kaaba | det |
| 18 | Kaaba | Kaaba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 face | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past · passive | mosque | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | note | participle | the faithful | with dismay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not face | past · do-support | mosque | the Kaaba | correctly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kaaba=Destination |
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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