Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 103
But his memory is still detested and his present address is believed to be somewhere in the very centre of the flaming halls of Iblis.
Who acts: Department · What happens: detest, believe, be, address · To what, where: memory, present address, centre
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 detested | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 memory | nmod:poss |
| 3 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 detested | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 detested | aux:pass |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 detested | advmod |
| 6 | detested | detest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 believed | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 address | nmod:poss |
| 9 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 address | amod |
| 10 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 believed | aux:pass |
| 12 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 detested | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 somewhere | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 somewhere | cop |
| 15 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 believed | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 centre | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 centre | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 centre | advmod |
| 19 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 somewhere | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 halls | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 halls | det |
| 22 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 halls | compound |
| 23 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 centre | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Iblis | case |
| 25 | Iblis | Iblis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 halls | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 detested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detest | present · passive | Department's memory | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | believe | present · passive | Department's present address | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the centre of the flaming halls of Iblis | somewhere property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | address | Department | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=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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