Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 32

The investigations of the Archaeological Department of the Government of India have recently brought to light facts that have turned the eyes of the whole world towards the valley of the Indus.

Who acts: light facts · What happens: bring, turn, investigate · To what, where: investigations, light facts, eyes, valley, Archaeological Department

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 (light facts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 investigations	det
2	investigations	investigation	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 brought	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Department	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Department	det
5	Archaeological	Archaeological	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Department	compound
6	Department	Department	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 investigations	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Government	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Government	det
9	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Department	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 India	case
11	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Government	nmod
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 brought	aux
13	recently	recently	ADV	_	14 brought	advmod
14	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 facts	case
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 facts	compound
17	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 brought	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 turned	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	aux
20	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 facts	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eyes	det
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turned	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 world	amod
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eyes	nmod
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	29 valley	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 valley	det
29	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Indus	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Indus	det
32	Indus	Indus	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 valley	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	present · perfect · passive		the investigations of the Archaeological Department of the Government of India	light facts	recently property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to fact=Destination
2	turn	present · perfect	light facts	the eyes of the whole world	the valley of the Indus		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme towards valley=Trajectory
3	investigate			the Archaeological Department of the Government of India			nom investigation «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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 32

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 32