Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 2

It is a big place, but crumbling to ruins; still the walls that remain are so wide that three men, so it is said, can sleep on them side by side.

Who acts: town, big place, walls · What happens: be, crumble, remain, say, sleep · To what, where: big place, town, side · 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 (town, big place, walls), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 place	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wide	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crumbling	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 crumbling	cc
8	crumbling	crumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 place	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 ruins	case
10	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crumbling	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 walls	punct
12	still	still	ADV	_	14 walls	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 walls	det
14	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 place	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 remain	nsubj
16	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 walls	acl:relcl
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wide	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 wide	advmod
19	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	that	that	ADP	_	22 men	case
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 men	nummod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wide	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 said	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 said	aux:pass
27	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 wide	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sleep	punct
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sleep	aux
30	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 said	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sleep	obl
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sleep	xcomp
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 side	case
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sleep	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 wide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	town	a big place and the walls	the walls conj	tree rules
2	crumble	gerund	a big place and the walls not said here		to ruins result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to ruin=Result
3	remain	present	the walls			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	a big place and the walls		that three men; wide property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present · passive		town		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
6	sleep	can		side	on place; by side	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 2