Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 64
The saint’s body found its last resting place about two miles to the west of Old Hala.
Who acts: body · What happens: find · To what, where: last resting place
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 (body), 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 saint | det |
| 2 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 body | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 saint | case |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 8 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | compound |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 two | advmod |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 miles | nummod |
| 12 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 west | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 west | det |
| 15 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Hala | case |
| 17 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Hala | amod |
| 18 | Hala | Hala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 west | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the saint's body | body's last resting place | to the west of Old Hala; two miles obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent place=Theme mile=Attribute |
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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