Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 109
They were followers of a family known to history as the Kalhoras, whose family name Abbassi lent strength to their claim that they were sprung from the loins of Abbas, the uncle of the holy Prophet.
Who acts: tribesmen, followers, Kalhoras · What happens: be, know, lend, spring, name, claim · To what, where: followers, family, strength, claim, tribesmen, loins
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 (tribesmen, followers, Kalhoras), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followers | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followers | cop |
| 3 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lent | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followers | nmod |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 family | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 history | case |
| 9 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Kalhoras | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Kalhoras | det |
| 12 | Kalhoras | Kalhoras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 name | punct |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 name | compound |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Kalhoras | appos |
| 17 | Abbassi | Abbassi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 name | appos |
| 18 | lent | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lent | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 claim | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 claim | nmod:poss |
| 22 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lent | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 sprung | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sprung | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sprung | aux:pass |
| 26 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 claim | acl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 loins | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 loins | det |
| 29 | loins | loin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sprung | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Abbas | case |
| 31 | Abbas | Abbas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 loins | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 uncle | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 uncle | det |
| 34 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Abbas | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Prophet | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Prophet | det |
| 37 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Prophet | amod |
| 38 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 uncle | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 lent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tribesmen = tribesman | followers | of a family | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | participle | a family not said here | to history; as the Kalhoras | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as kalhoras=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | lend | past | followers | strength | tribesmen's claim | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent strength=Theme to claim=Recipient | |||
| 4 | spring | past · passive | tribesmen = tribesman | the loins of Abbas | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name | the Kalhoras | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | claim | tribesmen = tribesman | nom claim «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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