Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 81
Shah Makai’s real name was Shah Mahmud; but because he lived at Maka or Mecca, he was known as Shah Makai.
Who acts: real name, Haidar, Shah · What happens: be, live, know, name · To what, where: Shah, Maka, Haidar
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 (real name, Haidar, Shah), 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 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Makai | Makai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shah | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Shah | case |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | amod |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Shah | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Shah | cop |
| 7 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | Mahmud | Mahmud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Shah | flat |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 known | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 known | cc |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 lived | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 known | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Maka | case |
| 15 | Maka | Maka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 Mecca | cc |
| 17 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Maka | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 known | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 known | aux:pass |
| 21 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Shah | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 Shah | case |
| 23 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 known | obl |
| 24 | Makai | Makai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Shah | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Shah | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Shah's real name | Shah | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Haidar | Maka or Mecca | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at maka=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | past · passive | Haidar | as Shah | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as shah=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | name | Shah | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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