Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 108
The town of Larkana derives its name from the tribe of Larak and was probably at one time called Larakanjo got or the village of the Larak tribesmen.
Who acts: town, one time · What happens: derive, be, call, get, name · To what, where: name, tribe, one time · 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 (town, one time), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 derives | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Larkana | case |
| 4 | Larkana | Larkana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 town | nmod |
| 5 | derives | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 derives | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 tribe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tribe | det |
| 10 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 derives | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Larak | case |
| 12 | Larak | Larak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tribe | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 time | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | cop |
| 15 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 18 time | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 time | nummod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tribe | conj |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 time | acl |
| 20 | Larakanjo | Larakanjo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | acl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 village | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 village | det |
| 24 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tribesmen | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tribesmen | det |
| 27 | Larak | Larak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 tribesmen | compound |
| 28 | tribesmen | tribesman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 village | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 derives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | present | the town of Larkana | town's name | the tribe of Larak and one time or the village of the Larak tribesmen | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent name=Result from tribe=Material | |||
| 2 | is | past | the town of Larkana not said here | at one time or the village of the Larak tribesmen | the village of the Larak tribesmen conj; probably property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | participle | one time or the village of the Larak tribesmen not said here | Larakanjo xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | past | one time or the village of the Larak tribesmen not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | name | town | nom name «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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