Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 110
After the conquest of Sind by Akbar, it became a province of the Moghul empire; but with the decline of the imperial power, authority relaxed and disorder grew.
Who acts: conquest, decline, imperial power · What happens: become, grow, decline · To what, where: province
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 (conquest, decline, imperial power), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 conquest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 conquest | det |
| 3 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sind | case |
| 5 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 conquest | nmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Akbar | case |
| 7 | Akbar | Akbar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sind | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 conquest | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 province | det |
| 12 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 empire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 empire | det |
| 15 | Moghul | Moghul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 empire | compound |
| 16 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 province | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 grew | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 grew | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 decline | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 decline | det |
| 21 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 power | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 power | det |
| 24 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 power | amod |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 decline | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 authority | punct |
| 27 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 decline | conj |
| 28 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 authority | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 disorder | cc |
| 30 | disorder | disorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 relaxed | conj |
| 31 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 became | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | conquest | a province of the Moghul empire | after the conquest of Sind by Akbar | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the decline of the imperial power and authority | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | decline | the imperial power | nom decline «process intransitive»: of=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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