Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 67
On the tomb were engraved the following words in order to silence possible slanderers of the dead man:
What happens: engrave, follow · To what, where: following words, tomb
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 tomb | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tomb | det |
| 3 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 engraved | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 engraved | aux:pass |
| 5 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 engraved | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 slanderers | case |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 in | fixed |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 slanderers | mark |
| 12 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slanderers | compound |
| 13 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slanderers | amod |
| 14 | slanderers | slanderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 engraved | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slanderers | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 engraved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engrave | past · passive | the following words | the tomb | in silence possible slanderers of the dead man | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: word=Theme on tomb=Destination | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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