Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 113
Adam Shah’s grandson Shahlal Mahomed was the famous saint, whose memory still lives in the Fatehpur mosque.
Who acts: grandson, memory · What happens: be, live · To what, where: famous saint, Fatehpur mosque
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 (grandson, memory), 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 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Adam | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Adam | case |
| 4 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saint | nsubj |
| 5 | Shahlal | Shahlal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grandson | appos |
| 6 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Shahlal | flat |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saint | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 saint | det |
| 9 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saint | amod |
| 10 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lives | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 memory | nmod:poss |
| 13 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lives | nsubj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 lives | advmod |
| 15 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 saint | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 mosque | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mosque | det |
| 18 | Fatehpur | Fatehpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mosque | compound |
| 19 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lives | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Adam's grandson | the famous saint | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | memory | the Fatehpur mosque | still | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mosque=Location |
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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