Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 44
A fascinating vista of Sind, i.e., the land of the Indus, as the cradle of modern Civilisation has been opened up, (for Sumerian culture was probably the source of Babylonian, Assyrian and Western Asiatic culture).
What happens: open up, be · To what, where: fascinating vista, source
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 vista | det |
| 2 | fascinating | fascinating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vista | amod |
| 3 | vista | vista | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sind | case |
| 5 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 vista | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 land | punct |
| 7 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 10 land | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 land | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vista | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Indus | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Indus | det |
| 13 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 land | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cradle | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 cradle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cradle | det |
| 17 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vista | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Civilisation | case |
| 19 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Civilisation | amod |
| 20 | Civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cradle | nmod |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 opened | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 opened | aux:pass |
| 23 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 opened | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 source | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 source | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 culture | case |
| 28 | Sumerian | sumerian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 culture | amod |
| 29 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 source | obl |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 source | cop |
| 31 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 33 source | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 source | det |
| 33 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opened | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Babylonian | case |
| 35 | Babylonian | Babylonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 source | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Assyrian | punct |
| 37 | Assyrian | Assyrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Babylonian | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 culture | cc |
| 39 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 culture | amod |
| 40 | Asiatic | asiatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 culture | amod |
| 41 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Babylonian | conj |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 culture | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open up | present · perfect · passive | a fascinating vista of Sind and the land of the Indus and the cradle of modern Civilisation | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the source | for Sumerian culture; of Babylonian and Assyrian and Western Asiatic culture; probably property | tree rules |
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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