Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 36
He chose a site to the east of the Makli Hill and on a day picked out by the Brahmans, he founded his city, Tatta.
Who acts: happiness · What happens: choose, pick out, found · To what, where: site, day, city
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 (happiness), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chose | nsubj |
| 2 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 site | det |
| 4 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 east | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 east | det |
| 7 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Hill | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hill | det |
| 10 | Makli | Makli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hill | compound |
| 11 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 east | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 day | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Hill | conj |
| 16 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 day | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 picked | compound:prt |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Brahmans | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Brahmans | det |
| 20 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 picked | obl:agent |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 founded | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 founded | nsubj |
| 23 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chose | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 city | nmod:poss |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 founded | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tatta | punct |
| 27 | Tatta | Tatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 city | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | happiness | a site | to the east of the Makli Hill and a day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent site=Theme | |||
| 2 | pick out | participle | a day not said here | the Brahmans obl:agent | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | found | past | happiness | happiness's city | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
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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