Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 34
This discovery is confirmed by the unearthing, almost at the same time, of similar remains 400 miles away at Harappa in the Montgomery District of the Punjab.
Who acts: unearthing · What happens: confirm · To what, where: discovery, Harappa
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 (unearthing), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 discovery | det |
| 2 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confirmed | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 unearthing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 unearthing | det |
| 7 | unearthing | unearthing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confirmed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 time | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confirmed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remains | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 remains | case |
| 16 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 remains | amod |
| 17 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 confirmed | obl |
| 18 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 miles | nummod |
| 19 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 away | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 remains | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 Harappa | case |
| 22 | Harappa | Harappa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 confirmed | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 District | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 District | det |
| 25 | Montgomery | Montgomery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 District | compound |
| 26 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 confirmed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Punjab | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Punjab | det |
| 29 | Punjab | Punjab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 District | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confirmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confirm | present · passive | the unearthing | this discovery | Harappa | time | of similar remains; in the Montgomery District of the Punjab | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Topic |
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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