Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 105
A few miles from Larkana at a place called Fatehpur is a handsome mosque.
Who acts: few miles · What happens: call, be · To what, where: place, handsome mosque · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (few miles), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 miles | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 miles | amod |
| 3 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mosque | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Larkana | case |
| 5 | Larkana | Larkana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 miles | nmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 miles | nmod |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 place | acl |
| 10 | Fatehpur | Fatehpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mosque | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mosque | det |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mosque | amod |
| 14 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 mosque | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a place not said here | Fatehpur xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a few miles from Larkana at a place | a handsome mosque | tree rules |
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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