Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 10
Whatever the true origin may be, let us take the tombs from north to south and put down what we know about them.
Who acts: true origin, you, us, we · What happens: be, let, take, put down, know · To what, where: Whatever, us, tombs
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (true origin, you, us, we), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 let | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 origin | det |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 origin | amod |
| 4 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whatever | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whatever | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Whatever | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whatever | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tombs | det |
| 12 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 south | case |
| 14 | north | north | ADV | _ | 16 south | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 south | case |
| 16 | south | south | ADV | _ | 10 take | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 put | compound:prt |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 know | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | the true origin | Whatever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | us not said here | the tombs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme from south=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | put down | infinitive | us not said here | what obj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Goal | ||||
| 5 | know | present | we | about tombs = tomb | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about they=Stimulus |
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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