Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 68
His tomb is a small ruined brick enclosure, the one immediately to the north of Tural Beg’s, of whom I shall say a word or two later.
Who acts: tomb, I · What happens: ruin, be, say · To what, where: small ruined brick enclosure · 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 (tomb, I), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enclosure | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 enclosure | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 enclosure | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 enclosure | amod |
| 6 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 enclosure | amod |
| 7 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enclosure | compound |
| 8 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enclosure | appos |
| 12 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 north | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 north | det |
| 15 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Beg | case |
| 17 | Tural | Tural | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Beg | compound |
| 18 | Beg | Beg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 north | nmod |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Beg | case |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 say | punct |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 whom | case |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 say | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 say | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 say | aux |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 enclosure | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 word | det |
| 27 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 later | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 two | cc |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 word | conj |
| 30 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 say | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 enclosure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Isa's tomb | a small ruined brick enclosure | the one to the north of Tural Beg appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | shall | I | of a small ruined brick enclosure; late property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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