Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 8

Some say that the hill owes its title to a pious woman called Makli who lived and was buried on it.

Who acts: Some, hill, pious woman · What happens: say, owe, call, live, bury, title · To what, where: title, pious woman, Hill · 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 (Some, hill, pious woman), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 owes	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owes	nsubj
6	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 title	nmod:poss
8	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owes	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 woman	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owes	obl
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 woman	acl
14	Makli	Makli	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lived	nsubj
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 woman	acl:relcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 buried	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 buried	aux:pass
19	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lived	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 buried	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	owe	present	the hill	Hill's title	a pious woman			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent title=Theme to woman=Goal
3	call	participle		a pious woman not said here			Makli xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	live	past	a pious woman					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bury	past · passive	a pious woman not said here			Hill		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on it=Destination
6	title		Hill					nom title «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 8