Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 50
The tomb is entirely of carved stone with perforated slabs let in here and there.
Who acts: tomb, perforated slabs · What happens: carve, be, perforate, let
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 (tomb, perforated slabs), 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 | 2 tomb | det |
| 2 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stone | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stone | cop |
| 4 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 7 stone | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 6 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stone | amod |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 let | mark |
| 9 | perforated | perforate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 slabs | amod |
| 10 | slabs | slab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 let | nsubj |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stone | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 here | case |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 let | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 there | cc |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 here | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the tomb | of carved stone; entirely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | perforate | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | let | present | perforated slabs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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