Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 128

The lid was no sooner lifted than the head flew out and made its way through the air to Shahlal Mahomed’s favourite village of Fatehpur, wherein the Saint’s body lay buried.

Who acts: head, body · What happens: lift, fly out, make, lie, bury · To what, where: lid, way, air

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 (head, body), 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 lid	det
2	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	aux:pass
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 lifted	det
5	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 lifted	advmod
6	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 flew	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 flew	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flew	conj
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 air	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	24 village	case
20	Shahlal	Shahlal	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Mahomed	compound
21	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 village	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Mahomed	case
23	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 village	amod
24	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Fatehpur	case
26	Fatehpur	Fatehpur	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 village	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lay	punct
28	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	33 lay	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Saint	det
30	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 body	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Saint	case
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lay	nsubj
33	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 village	acl:relcl
34	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 lay	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past · passive		the lid		soon property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	fly out	past	the head				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past	the head not said here	head's way	the air	to Shahlal Mahomed's favourite village of Fatehpur	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
4	lie	past	the Saint's body			wherein property	tree rules
5	bury	participle	the Saint's body not said here				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 128

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 128