Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 21
He built the great fort known as Murad jo Killo and seemed perfectly contented.
Who acts: proverb · What happens: build, know, seem, content · To what, where: great fort
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 (proverb), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fort | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fort | amod |
| 5 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obj |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fort | acl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 Murad | case |
| 8 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 known | obl |
| 9 | jo | jo | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Murad | dep |
| 10 | Killo | Killo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Murad | flat |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seemed | cc |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 built | conj |
| 13 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 14 contented | advmod |
| 14 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | proverb | the great fort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Product | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | the great fort not said here | as Murad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as murad=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | proverb not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | content | participle | proverb not said here | perfectly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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