Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 142
Thus the great saint is honoured by no less than three tombs, one at Fatehpur, where lie his real head and body, a second at Lahore where the empty box was buried and disinterred, and a third at Delhi where the second head lies.
Who acts: three tombs · What happens: honour, lie, bury, disinter · To what, where: great saint, real head, empty box
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 (three tombs), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 honoured | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 saint | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saint | amod |
| 4 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 honoured | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 honoured | aux:pass |
| 6 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 tombs | case |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 less | advmod |
| 9 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 three | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 less | fixed |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 tombs | nummod |
| 12 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 honoured | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fatehpur | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Fatehpur | nummod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Fatehpur | case |
| 16 | Fatehpur | Fatehpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tombs | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 lie | advmod |
| 19 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 Fatehpur | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 head | amod |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lie | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 body | cc |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 second | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 second | det |
| 27 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Fatehpur | appos |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 Lahore | case |
| 29 | Lahore | Lahore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 second | nmod |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 buried | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 box | det |
| 32 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 box | amod |
| 33 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 buried | aux:pass |
| 35 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 second | acl:relcl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 disinterred | cc |
| 37 | disinterred | disinter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 buried | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 third | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 third | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 third | det |
| 41 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 honoured | obl |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 Delhi | case |
| 43 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 third | nmod |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 third | acl:relcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 lies | det |
| 46 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 48 lies | amod |
| 47 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 lies | compound |
| 48 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 where | nsubj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 honoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour | present · passive | three tombs at one Fatehpur | the great saint | a third at Delhi obl; thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | infinitive | Fatehpur's real head and body | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | the empty box | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | disinter | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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