Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 101
In time the stones were piled up right to the stone canopy above it.
What happens: pile up · To what, where: stones
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piled | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stones | det |
| 4 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 piled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 piled | aux:pass |
| 6 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 piled | compound:prt |
| 8 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 canopy | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 canopy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 canopy | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 canopy | compound |
| 12 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piled | obl |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 canopy | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 piled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | past · passive | the stones | time | to the stone canopy above canopy | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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