Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 41
Whether any trace of this remote civilisation can be detected in any of the old legends at present current among the country-folk of Sind, it is impossible to say.
What happens: detect, be, say · To what, where: trace, any · 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: 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 detected | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 trace | det |
| 3 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 detected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 civilisation | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 civilisation | det |
| 6 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 civilisation | amod |
| 7 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trace | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 detected | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 detected | aux:pass |
| 10 | detected | detect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 impossible | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 any | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 detected | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 legends | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 legends | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 legends | amod |
| 16 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 any | nmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 current | case |
| 18 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 current | amod |
| 19 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 legends | nmod |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 folk | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 folk | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 folk | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 country | punct |
| 24 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 current | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Sind | case |
| 26 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 folk | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 detected | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 impossible | expl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 impossible | cop |
| 30 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 say | mark |
| 32 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 impossible | csubj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detect | can · passive | any trace of this remote civilisation | any of the old legends at present current among the country folk of Sind | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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