Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 11
The farthest to the north is a brick tomb on a masonry plinth, plastered and white-washed.
What happens: be, plaster, wash · To what, where: brick tomb, masonry plinth
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: 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 farthest | det |
| 2 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 tomb | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 north | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 north | det |
| 5 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 farthest | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tomb | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tomb | det |
| 8 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tomb | compound |
| 9 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 plinth | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 plinth | det |
| 12 | masonry | masonry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plinth | compound |
| 13 | plinth | plinth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tomb | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 plastered | punct |
| 15 | plastered | plaster | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 plinth | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 washed | cc |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 washed | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 white | punct |
| 19 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 plastered | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tomb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a brick tomb | a masonry plinth | the farthest to the north obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | plaster | participle | a masonry plinth not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | wash | participle | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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