Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 69
Isa Khan’s tomb is a poor thing compared with his father’s and his son’s, but then so was Mahomed Baki himself.
Who acts: tomb · What happens: be, compare · To what, where: poor thing, Mahomed
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), 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 | Isa | Isa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Isa | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Isa | case |
| 4 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thing | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 son | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 son | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 compared | obl |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 son | case |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Mahomed | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 Mahomed | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 Mahomed | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 Mahomed | advmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Mahomed | cop |
| 23 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | nmod |
| 24 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Mahomed | flat |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 23 Mahomed | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Isa's tomb | a poor thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | compare | participle | a poor thing not said here | with Isa's father's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with son=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Mahomed | then | Isa nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
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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