Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 22

The second difficulty he met by cutting Akbar’s first garment out of the coat of Sayad Ali Shirazi, who had been sent by the people of Tatta with gifts and greetings.

Who acts: second difficulty, people · What happens: meet, cut, send · To what, where: first garment, coat, Sayad Ali

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 (second difficulty, people), 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	3 difficulty	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 difficulty	amod
3	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 cutting	mark
7	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 met	advcl
8	Akbar	Akbar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 garment	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Akbar	case
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 garment	amod
11	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cutting	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 coat	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 coat	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coat	det
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cutting	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Ali	case
17	Sayad	Sayad	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Ali	compound
18	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 coat	nmod
19	Shirazi	Shirazi	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Ali	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sent	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sent	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 sent	aux:pass
24	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 Ali	acl:relcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 people	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 people	det
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sent	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Tatta	case
29	Tatta	Tatta	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 people	nmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 gifts	case
31	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sent	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 greetings	cc
33	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gifts	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the second difficulty			difficulty nsubj	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cut	gerund	the second difficulty not said here	Akbar's first garment	the coat of Sayad Ali		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garment=Product
3	send	past · perfect · passive	the people of Tatta	Sayad Ali		with gifts and greetings	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 22

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 22