Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 26
It is about certain leaders—religious and political—of these peoples of the bygone centuries that the Hon.
Who acts: life · What happens: be
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 (life), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leaders | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 leaders | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 leaders | case |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaders | amod |
| 5 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 religious | punct |
| 7 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaders | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 political | cc |
| 9 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 religious | conj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 peoples | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 peoples | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 peoples | det |
| 13 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leaders | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 centuries | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 centuries | det |
| 16 | bygone | bygone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 centuries | compound |
| 17 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 peoples | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 Hon | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hon | det |
| 20 | Hon | Hon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 centuries | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | life | about certain leaders and this peoples of the bygone centuries the Hon; this peoples of the bygone centuries the Hon conj | 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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