Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 143
The descendants of Shahlal Mahomed were the famous Kalhoro Mirs who ruled Sind until overthrown by the Talpurs.
Who acts: descendants, famous Kalhoro · What happens: be, rule, overthrow · To what, where: famous Kalhoro, Sind
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 (descendants, famous Kalhoro), 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 descendants | det |
| 2 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Kalhoro | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Shahlal | case |
| 4 | Shahlal | Shahlal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 descendants | nmod |
| 5 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Shahlal | flat |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Kalhoro | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Kalhoro | det |
| 8 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Kalhoro | amod |
| 9 | Kalhoro | Kalhoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | Mirs | Mirs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Kalhoro | flat |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ruled | nsubj |
| 12 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Kalhoro | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ruled | obj |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 overthrown | mark |
| 15 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ruled | xcomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Talpurs | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Talpurs | det |
| 18 | Talpurs | Talpur | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 overthrown | obl:agent |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kalhoro | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the descendants of Shahlal | the famous Kalhoro | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rule | past | the famous Kalhoro | Sind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | overthrow | participle | the famous Kalhoro not said here | the Talpurs obl:agent | tree rules |
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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