Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 84
His fortune was as great as his childhood foretold; for in due course he became the son-in-law of the holy prophet and the fourth Imam of the Faithful.
Who acts: fortune, child · What happens: be, foretell, become · To what, where: childhood, son
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 (fortune, child), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 great | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 great | advmod |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 childhood | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 8 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 great | obl |
| 9 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 childhood | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 course | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 course | case |
| 13 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 course | amod |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 son | det |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | xcomp |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 law | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 law | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 in | punct |
| 22 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 prophet | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 prophet | det |
| 25 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 prophet | amod |
| 26 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 law | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Imam | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Imam | det |
| 29 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 Imam | amod |
| 30 | Imam | Imam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 prophet | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Faithful | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Faithful | det |
| 33 | Faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Imam | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | child's fortune | as child's childhood; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | foretell | participle | child's childhood not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | become | past | child | the son | for due course | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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