Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 112
The first great Kalhoro was Adam Shah, who “drank the sherbet of martyrdom at Multan” or in simpler language was killed in an obscure fight with the Moghul governor of that city.
Who acts: Adam · What happens: be, drink, kill · To what, where: Adam, sherbet, simpler language, Multan, first great Kalhoro · 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 (Adam), 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 | 4 Kalhoro | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Kalhoro | amod |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Kalhoro | amod |
| 4 | Kalhoro | Kalhoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Adam | cop |
| 6 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kalhoro | flat |
| 7 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Adam | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drank | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 drank | nsubj |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 drank | punct |
| 11 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Adam | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sherbet | det |
| 13 | sherbet | sherbet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drank | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 martyrdom | case |
| 15 | martyrdom | martyrdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sherbet | nmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Multan | case |
| 17 | Multan | Multan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | obl |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Multan | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 language | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 language | case |
| 21 | simpler | simple | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 language | amod |
| 22 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 killed | aux:pass |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 drank | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fight | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fight | det |
| 27 | obscure | obscure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fight | amod |
| 28 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 governor | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 governor | det |
| 31 | Moghul | Moghul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 governor | compound |
| 32 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fight | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 city | case |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 city | det |
| 35 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 governor | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kalhoro | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Adam | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | past | Adam | the sherbet of martyrdom | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sherbet=Patient | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | simpler language | Multan | in a obscure fight with the Moghul governor of that city | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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