Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 75
It is of brick, faced with glazed blue and green tiles.
Who acts: southernmost · What happens: be, face, glaze · To what, where: brick
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 (southernmost), 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 | 4 brick | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brick | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 brick | case |
| 4 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 faced | punct |
| 6 | faced | face | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brick | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 tiles | case |
| 8 | glazed | glaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tiles | amod |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tiles | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 green | cc |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blue | conj |
| 12 | tiles | tile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 faced | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | southernmost | of brick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | face | participle | brick not said here | with glazed blue tiles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tile=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glaze | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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