Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 37
Further, there are a number of engraved and inscribed seals bearing inscriptions in a hitherto unknown pictographic script.
Who acts: number, engraved seals · What happens: be, engrave, inscribe, bear · To what, where: inscriptions, unknown pictographic script
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 (number, engraved seals), 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 | Further | further | ADV | _ | 4 are | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Further | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 are | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 seals | case |
| 8 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seals | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 inscribed | cc |
| 10 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 engraved | conj |
| 11 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 12 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 seals | acl |
| 13 | inscriptions | inscription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bearing | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 script | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 script | det |
| 16 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 17 unknown | advmod |
| 17 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 script | amod |
| 18 | pictographic | pictographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 script | amod |
| 19 | script | script | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bearing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a number of engraved seals | there | further property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | engrave | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | inscribe | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bear | gerund | engraved seals not said here | inscriptions | a unknown pictographic script | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=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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