Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 102
Fortunately for the “Famine Man” the Public Works Department have taken charge of his tomb and have removed the stones.
Who acts: Works Department · What happens: take, remove, charge · To what, where: charge, stones, tomb
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 (Works Department), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 13 taken | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Man | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Man | det |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Man | punct |
| 5 | Famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Man | compound |
| 6 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fortunately | obl |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Man | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Department | det |
| 9 | Public | Public | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Works | compound |
| 10 | Works | Works | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Department | compound |
| 11 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tomb | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 charge | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 removed | cc |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 removed | aux |
| 20 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 taken | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stones | det |
| 22 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 removed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect | the Works Department | charge of Department's tomb | fortunately property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | |||
| 2 | remove | present · perfect | the Works Department not said here | the stones | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | charge | Department's tomb | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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