Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 9
Others say that a holy man gave it the name of Makli because he deemed it Maka laali or the threshold of Mecca.
Who acts: Others, holy man, man · What happens: say, give, deem, name · To what, where: title, Makli · 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 (Others, holy man, man), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 gave | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Makli | case |
| 12 | Makli | Makli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 deemed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deemed | nsubj |
| 15 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deemed | obj |
| 17 | Maka | Maka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 laali | compound |
| 18 | laali | laali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deemed | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 threshold | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 threshold | det |
| 21 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laali | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Mecca | case |
| 23 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 threshold | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | past | a holy man | title | the name of Makli obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 3 | deem | past | man | title | Maka laali or the threshold of Mecca obj | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme laali=Attribute | |||
| 4 | name | Makli | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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