Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 70
According to my chronicler, these lines had an excellent effect.
Who acts: lines · What happens: accord, have · To what, where: excellent effect
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 (lines), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 chronicler | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 chronicler | nmod:poss |
| 4 | chronicler | chronicler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chronicler | punct |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 lines | det |
| 7 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 effect | det |
| 10 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 effect | amod |
| 11 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | past | this lines | a excellent effect | accord my chronicler | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
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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