Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 25
Who can regard the wonderful tombs on the Makli Hill at Tatta or the ruins of the great city of Brahmanabad without realising that those responsible for these things must have been, in their day, well advanced in social and civilised life, and deserving of the respect of the present generation.
What happens: regard, realise, be, advance, civilise, deserve · To what, where: wonderful tombs, Makli Hill, social, life, great city, present generation
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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 regard | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 regard | aux |
| 3 | regard | regard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tombs | det |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tombs | amod |
| 6 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 regard | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Hill | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hill | det |
| 9 | Makli | Makli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hill | compound |
| 10 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 regard | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Tatta | case |
| 12 | Tatta | Tatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hill | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 ruins | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ruins | det |
| 15 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Hill | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 city | amod |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ruins | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Brahmanabad | case |
| 21 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 city | nmod |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 realising | mark |
| 23 | realising | realise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 regard | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 responsible | mark |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 responsible | det |
| 26 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 realising | ccomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 things | case |
| 28 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 things | det |
| 29 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 responsible | obl |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 day | aux |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 day | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 day | cop |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 day | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 day | nmod:poss |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 things | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 advanced | punct |
| 38 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 39 advanced | discourse |
| 39 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 regard | parataxis |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 social | case |
| 41 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 advanced | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 civilised | cc |
| 43 | civilised | civilise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 advanced | conj |
| 44 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 civilised | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 deserving | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 deserving | cc |
| 47 | deserving | deserve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 advanced | advcl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 respect | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 respect | det |
| 50 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 deserving | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 generation | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 generation | det |
| 53 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 generation | amod |
| 54 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 respect | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 regard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | can | the wonderful tombs | the Makli Hill at Tatta or the ruins of the great city of Brahmanabad | Who nsubj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme | |||
| 2 | realise | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | must · perfect | in things's day | things = thing nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | advance | participle | social | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | civilise | participle | life | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | deserve | gerund | of the respect of the present generation | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | ruin | the great city of Brahmanabad | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | respect | the present generation | nom respect «cognition 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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