Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 29
When the Afghan Emperor Ala-ud-din Khilji conquered Sind, a Rajput tribe named the Sumras were in possession.
Who acts: Afghan Emperor ud din, Rajput tribe · What happens: conquer, name, be · To what, where: Sind, Rajput tribe, possession
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 (Afghan Emperor ud din, Rajput tribe), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 conquered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 din | det |
| 3 | Afghan | Afghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 din | amod |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 din | compound |
| 5 | Ala | Ala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Emperor | flat |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Emperor | punct |
| 7 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 din | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ud | punct |
| 9 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conquered | nsubj |
| 10 | Khilji | Khilji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 din | appos |
| 11 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 possession | advcl |
| 12 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 conquered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 conquered | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tribe | det |
| 15 | Rajput | Rajput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tribe | compound |
| 16 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 possession | nsubj |
| 17 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tribe | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sumras | det |
| 19 | Sumras | Sumras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 named | xcomp |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 possession | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 possession | case |
| 22 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 possession | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | the Afghan Emperor ud din | Sind | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a Rajput tribe not said here | the Sumras xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a Rajput tribe | possession | 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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