Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 33
Searching amongst the ruins of northern Sind, Mr. Rakhaldas Bannerji has discovered at Mohenjo Daro in the Larkana District buildings and domestic articles that seem to indicate the existence in Sind of an advanced civilisation some thousands of years ago!
Who acts: Searching, District buildings · What happens: search, discover, seem, indicate, ruin · To what, where: ruins, Mohenjo Daro, existence, Sind, northern Sind
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 (Searching, District buildings), 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 | Searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 discovered | csubj:pass |
| 2 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 4 ruins | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ruins | det |
| 4 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Searching | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Sind | case |
| 6 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Sind | amod |
| 7 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ruins | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Rakhaldas | punct |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rakhaldas | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Rakhaldas | Rakhaldas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sind | conj |
| 11 | Bannerji | Bannerji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rakhaldas | flat |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 discovered | aux |
| 13 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Daro | case |
| 15 | Mohenjo | Mohenjo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Daro | compound |
| 16 | Daro | Daro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 buildings | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 buildings | det |
| 19 | Larkana | Larkana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 District | compound |
| 20 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 buildings | compound |
| 21 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 discovered | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 articles | cc |
| 23 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 articles | amod |
| 24 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 buildings | conj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 seem | nsubj |
| 26 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 buildings | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 indicate | mark |
| 28 | indicate | indicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 seem | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 existence | det |
| 30 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 indicate | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Sind | case |
| 32 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 existence | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 civilisation | case |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 civilisation | det |
| 35 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 civilisation | amod |
| 36 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Sind | nmod |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 thousands | det |
| 38 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 years | case |
| 40 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 thousands | nmod |
| 41 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 28 indicate | advmod |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | gerund | the ruins of northern Sind and Rakhaldas Mr. | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst ruin=Location | |||||
| 2 | discover | present · perfect | Searching | Mohenjo Daro | in the District buildings and domestic articles | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | seem | present | the District buildings and domestic articles | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | indicate | to-infinitive | the District buildings and domestic articles not said here | the existence | Sind of a advanced civilisation | ago property | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot existence=Topic | ||
| 5 | ruin | northern Sind and Rakhaldas Mr. | nom ruin «state 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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