Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 48
It is to his tomb to which we come, shortly after saying goodbye to Jam Nindo’s.
Who acts: master, we · What happens: be, come, say · To what, where: tomb, goodbye, Jam · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (master, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tomb | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tomb | cop |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 tomb | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 come | obl |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tomb | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shortly | punct |
| 11 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 saying | mark |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 come | advcl |
| 14 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saying | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Jam | case |
| 16 | Jam | Jam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 saying | obl |
| 17 | Nindo | Nindo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Jam | flat |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Jam | case |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tomb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | master | to Akbar's tomb; Akbar nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | we | Akbar's tomb | shortly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | we not said here | goodbye | Jam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic to jam=Recipient |
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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