Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 35
Another love story of a different kind is told of the minaret of Mausum Shah, that looks down from a great height on the thriving town of Sukkur and the splendid river Indus, as it runs through its two limestone banks.
Who acts: minaret, story · What happens: tell, look down, thrive, run · To what, where: love story, two limestone banks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minaret, story), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 story | det |
| 2 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | compound |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kind | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kind | amod |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | aux:pass |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 minaret | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 minaret | det |
| 12 | minaret | minaret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Mausum | case |
| 14 | Mausum | Mausum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 minaret | nmod |
| 15 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mausum | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looks | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 looks | nsubj |
| 18 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 minaret | acl:relcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 looks | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 height | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 height | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 height | amod |
| 23 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looks | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 town | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 town | det |
| 26 | thriving | thrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 town | amod |
| 27 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 height | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Sukkur | case |
| 29 | Sukkur | Sukkur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 town | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 river | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 river | det |
| 32 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 river | amod |
| 33 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 height | conj |
| 34 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 river | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 runs | punct |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 runs | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 runs | nsubj |
| 38 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 looks | conj |
| 39 | through | through | ADP | _ | 43 banks | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 banks | nmod:poss |
| 41 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 banks | nummod |
| 42 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 banks | compound |
| 43 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 runs | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | another love story of a different kind | of the minaret of Mausum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | look down | present | the minaret of Mausum | from a great height on the thriving town of Sukkur and the splendid river; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from height=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thrive | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | run | present | story | story's two limestone banks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bank=Trajectory |
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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