Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 38

A careful comparison has now confirmed the surmise that these antiquities are closely connected and contemporary with the Sumerian antiquities of southern Mesopotamia, dating from the third or fourth millennium before Christ.

What happens: confirm, connect, date · To what, where: careful comparison, antiquities, third millennium

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: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 comparison	det
2	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 comparison	amod
3	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confirmed	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 confirmed	aux
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 confirmed	advmod
6	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 surmise	det
8	surmise	surmise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confirmed	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 connected	obj
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 antiquities	det
11	antiquities	antiquity	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 connected	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 connected	aux:pass
13	closely	closely	ADV	_	14 connected	advmod
14	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 surmise	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 contemporary	cc
16	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 connected	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 antiquities	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 antiquities	det
19	Sumerian	sumerian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 antiquities	amod
20	antiquities	antiquity	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 contemporary	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Mesopotamia	case
22	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Mesopotamia	amod
23	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 antiquities	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dating	punct
25	dating	date	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 confirmed	advcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	31 millennium	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 millennium	det
28	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 millennium	amod
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 fourth	cc
30	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 third	conj
31	millennium	millennium	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dating	obl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 Christ	case
33	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 dating	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 confirmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confirm	present · perfect · passive	a careful comparison		now	the surmise obj	tree rules
2	connect	present · passive	this antiquities			the surmise obj; closely property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient that=Result
3	date	gerund		the third millennium	before Christ		vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 38

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 38