Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 35
These remains include “houses and temples, massively built of burnt brick, and provided with well constructed water conduits covered with marble slabs.
Who acts: remains · What happens: include, build, provide, construct, cover · To what, where: houses, constructed water conduits · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (remains), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 remains | det |
| 2 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 include | nsubj |
| 3 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 houses | punct |
| 5 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 include | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 temples | cc |
| 7 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 houses | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 built | punct |
| 9 | massively | massively | ADV | _ | 10 built | advmod |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 houses | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 brick | case |
| 12 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brick | amod |
| 13 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 provided | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 provided | cc |
| 16 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 include | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 conduits | case |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 constructed | advmod |
| 19 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 conduits | amod |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 conduits | compound |
| 21 | conduits | conduit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 provided | obl |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 conduits | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 slabs | case |
| 24 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slabs | compound |
| 25 | slabs | slab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 covered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 include | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | this remains | houses and temples | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build in a quote | participle | houses and temples not said here | of burnt brick; massively property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | provide in a quote | participle | with constructed water conduits | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with conduit=Theme | |||||
| 4 | construct in a quote | participle | well property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cover in a quote | participle | constructed water conduits not said here | with marble slabs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with slab=Theme |
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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