Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 1
Near the small town of Naushahro in the district of Nawabshah, there is an old fort called Murad jo Killo or Murad’s Fort.
Who acts: old fort · What happens: be, call · To what, where: small town, old fort · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fort), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 town | amod |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Naushahro | case |
| 6 | Naushahro | Naushahro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 town | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 district | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 district | det |
| 9 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Naushahro | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Nawabshah | case |
| 11 | Nawabshah | Nawabshah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 district | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 town | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fort | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fort | amod |
| 17 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 fort | acl |
| 19 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Fort | nmod:poss |
| 20 | jo | jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Murad | flat |
| 21 | Killo | Killo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Murad | flat |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 Murad | cc |
| 23 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Murad | conj |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Murad | case |
| 25 | Fort | Fort | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a old fort | the small town of Naushahro in the district of Nawabshah; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near town=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a old fort not said here | Murad or Murad's Fort xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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