Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 41
This was too dreadful for words; for unless a mosque faces the Kaaba properly, it is useless.
Who acts: This, mosque · What happens: be, face · To what, where: 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dreadful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreadful | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 dreadful | advmod |
| 4 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dreadful | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 faces | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 mosque | case |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 11 mosque | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mosque | det |
| 11 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 faces | obl |
| 12 | faces | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreadful | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Kaaba | det |
| 14 | Kaaba | Kaaba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 faces | obj |
| 15 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 12 faces | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 useless | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 useless | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 useless | cop |
| 19 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 faces | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreadful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | for words; dreadful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | face | present | the Kaaba | for a mosque; properly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kaaba=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | present | mosque | useless property | tree rules |
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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