Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 123
The miracle of the Ghar canal was followed by so many others that the imperial governor became alarmed at the Saint’s growing fame and power.
Who acts: many others · What happens: follow, alarm, grow · To what, where: miracle, imperial governor, growing fame
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 (many others), 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 | 2 miracle | det |
| 2 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 canal | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 canal | det |
| 5 | Ghar | Ghar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 canal | compound |
| 6 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 miracle | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 followed | aux:pass |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 others | case |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 others | amod |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | obl:agent |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 alarmed | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 governor | det |
| 15 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 governor | amod |
| 16 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 18 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 others | acl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 fame | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Saint | det |
| 21 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 fame | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Saint | case |
| 23 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 fame | amod |
| 24 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 alarmed | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 power | cc |
| 26 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fame | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · passive | many others | the miracle of the Ghar canal | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | alarm | past · passive | many others not said here | the imperial governor | the Saint's growing fame and power | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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