Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 114
His first and perhaps greatest—certainly his most useful—miracle was the digging of the Ghar canal that runs past Larkana town.
Who acts: miracle, Ghar canal · What happens: be, run · To what, where: digging, Larkana town
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 (miracle, Ghar canal), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 greatest | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 greatest | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 greatest | cc |
| 4 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 greatest | advmod |
| 5 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 digging | obl |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 useful | punct |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 10 useful | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 useful | nmod:poss |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 useful | advmod |
| 10 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 greatest | conj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 miracle | punct |
| 12 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 digging | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 digging | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 digging | det |
| 15 | digging | digging | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 canal | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 canal | det |
| 18 | Ghar | Ghar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 canal | compound |
| 19 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 digging | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 runs | nsubj |
| 21 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 canal | acl:relcl |
| 22 | past | past | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 23 | Larkana | Larkana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 town | compound |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 runs | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 digging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | miracle | the digging | of the Ghar canal; Adam's first greatest obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | present | the Ghar canal | Larkana town | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past town=Trajectory |
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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