Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 121
Many years later Mian Nur Mahomed Kalhoro widened the Shahlal Wah and changed its name to Ghar canal, i.e., the canal broken by the tree driven by the Saint’s superhuman powers.
Who acts: Nur Mahomed, stream · What happens: widen, change, break, drive, name · To what, where: Shahlal Wah, name, canal, tree
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 (Nur Mahomed, stream), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 widened | advmod |
| 4 | Mian | mian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Nur | amod |
| 5 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mahomed | compound |
| 6 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 widened | nsubj |
| 7 | Kalhoro | Kalhoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mahomed | flat |
| 8 | widened | widen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wah | det |
| 10 | Shahlal | Shahlal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wah | compound |
| 11 | Wah | Wah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 widened | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 changed | cc |
| 13 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 widened | conj |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 canal | case |
| 17 | Ghar | Ghar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 canal | compound |
| 18 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 canal | punct |
| 20 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 23 canal | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 canal | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 canal | det |
| 23 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 canal | nmod |
| 24 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 canal | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 broken | obl |
| 28 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 tree | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 powers | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Saint | det |
| 31 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 powers | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Saint | case |
| 33 | superhuman | superhuman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 powers | compound |
| 34 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 driven | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 widened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | widen | past | Nur Mahomed | the Shahlal Wah | late property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wah=Patient | |||
| 2 | change | past | Nur Mahomed not said here | stream's name | to Ghar canal the canal | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 3 | break | participle | the canal not said here | by the tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | drive | participle | the tree not said here | by the Saint's superhuman powers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | name | stream | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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