Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 20

Then, too, think of the circumstances leading up to the birth at Oomerkot of that infant who was afterwards to be one of the greatest rulers in Indian history,—the mighty Akbar.

Who acts: you, Oomerkot · What happens: think, lead up, be · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Oomerkot), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 think	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 too	punct
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 circumstances	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 circumstances	det
8	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 think	obl
9	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 Oomerkot	csubj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 leading	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 birth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birth	det
13	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leading	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 Oomerkot	case
15	Oomerkot	Oomerkot	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 circumstances	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 infant	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 infant	nsubj
18	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Oomerkot	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 one	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 one	cop
21	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	24 one	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	24 one	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 one	cop
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Oomerkot	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 rulers	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rulers	det
27	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 rulers	amod
28	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 history	case
30	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 history	amod
31	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rulers	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Akbar	punct
33	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 Akbar	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Akbar	det
35	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Akbar	amod
36	Akbar	Akbar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Oomerkot	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here		then	of the circumstances at Oomerkot of infant that and the mighty Akbar	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lead up	gerund				to the birth	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to birth=Patient
3	is a	past	Oomerkot of infant that and the mighty Akbar	one		of the greatest rulers in Indian history; afterwards property	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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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 20