Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 137
It contained another head of Shahlal Mahomed exactly similar to the one that had flown away.
Who acts: box · What happens: contain, fly away · To what, where: head, one
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 (box), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 contained | nsubj |
| 2 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 head | det |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contained | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Shahlal | case |
| 6 | Shahlal | Shahlal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod |
| 7 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Shahlal | flat |
| 8 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 similar | advmod |
| 9 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 contained | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 similar | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 flown | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 flown | aux |
| 15 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 flown | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | past | box | another head of Shahlal | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly away | past · perfect · passive | the one | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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