Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 144

Their capital was Haidarabad but they always loved Larkana for the sake of their ancestor; and the fame of its prosperity and wealth under the Kalhoros is still preserved in the well-known couplet

Who acts: capital · What happens: be, love, preserve, know · To what, where: Haidarabad, Larkana, fame, known couplet

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 (capital), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 capital	nmod:poss
2	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loved	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Haidarabad	cop
4	Haidarabad	Haidarabad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 capital	appos
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 loved	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 loved	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 loved	advmod
8	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Larkana	Larkana	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 loved	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 sake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sake	det
12	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loved	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 ancestor	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ancestor	nmod:poss
15	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sake	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fame	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fame	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fame	det
19	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 preserved	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 prosperity	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 prosperity	nmod:poss
22	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fame	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wealth	cc
24	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prosperity	conj
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 Kalhoros	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Kalhoros	det
27	Kalhoros	Kalhoros	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 prosperity	nmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 preserved	aux:pass
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 preserved	advmod
30	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 loved	parataxis
31	in	in	ADP	_	36 couplet	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 couplet	det
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 known	advmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 well	punct
35	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 couplet	amod
36	couplet	couplet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 preserved	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Haidarabad				tree rules
2	love	past	descendants's capital	Larkana			for the sake of descendants's ancestor; descendants = descendant nsubj; always property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer larkana=Stimulus for sake=Attribute
3	preserve	present · passive		the fame of fame's prosperity under the Kalhoros and wealth	the known couplet	still		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	know	participle					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 144

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 144