Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 130
They buried the empty box in Lahore and building a shrine over it, appointed themselves its guardians.
Who acts: police · What happens: bury, build, appoint · To what, where: empty box, Lahore, shrine, box, police
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 (police), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 buried | nsubj |
| 2 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 4 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buried | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Lahore | case |
| 7 | Lahore | Lahore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 box | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 building | cc |
| 9 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 buried | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shrine | det |
| 11 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 building | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 building | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 appointed | punct |
| 15 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 buried | conj |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 appointed | obj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 guardians | nmod:poss |
| 18 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 appointed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | police | the empty box | Lahore | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme in lahore=Destination | |||
| 2 | build | gerund | police not said here | a shrine | box | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shrine=Product | |||
| 3 | appoint | past | police not said here | police | box's guardians obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme guardian=Attribute |
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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