Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 77
By the time Jani Beg had succeeded his father, the genius of Akbar was at its zenith.
Who acts: Jani, genius · What happens: succeed, be · To what, where: father, zenith
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 (Jani, genius), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 succeeded | obl |
| 4 | Jani | Jani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 succeeded | nsubj |
| 5 | Beg | Beg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Jani | flat |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 succeeded | aux |
| 7 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 succeeded | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 zenith | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 genius | det |
| 12 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 zenith | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Akbar | case |
| 14 | Akbar | Akbar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 genius | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 zenith | cop |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 zenith | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 zenith | nmod:poss |
| 18 | zenith | zenith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 father | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past · perfect | Jani | Jani's father and genius's zenith | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the genius of Akbar | genius's zenith | 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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