Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 52
It seems that in 1555 Mirza Isa Khan quarrelled with Sultan Mahmud the Governor of Bukkur by whose aid he had become King of Sind.
Who acts: It, Mirza · What happens: seem, quarrell, become · To what, where: 1555, aid
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 (It, Mirza), 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 | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 quarrelled | mark |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1555 | case |
| 5 | 1555 | 1555 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 quarrelled | obl |
| 6 | Mirza | Mirza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 quarrelled | nsubj |
| 7 | Isa | Isa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mirza | flat |
| 8 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mirza | flat |
| 9 | quarrelled | quarrell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seems | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Sultan | case |
| 11 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 quarrelled | obl |
| 12 | Mahmud | Mahmud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sultan | flat |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Governor | det |
| 14 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sultan | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Bukkur | case |
| 16 | Bukkur | Bukkur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Governor | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 aid | case |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 aid | nmod:poss |
| 19 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quarrelled | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 become | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 become | aux |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 aid | acl:relcl |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 become | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Sind | case |
| 25 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 King | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | quarrell | past | Mirza | 1555 | with Sultan and the Governor of Bukkur; by aid | tree rules | |||
| 3 | become | past · perfect | Mirza | aid not said here | King of Sind xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient aid=Result |
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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