Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 6
The tombs are built on a ridge known as the Makli Hill.
What happens: build, know · To what, where: tombs, ridge
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: 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 tombs | det |
| 2 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ridge | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ridge | det |
| 7 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ridge | acl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Hill | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hill | det |
| 11 | Makli | Makli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hill | compound |
| 12 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | the tombs | a ridge | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on ridge=Source | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | a ridge not said here | as the Makli Hill | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as hill=Attribute |
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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