Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 35
The great saint acquired his appellation of Lal Shahbaz, by two remarkable miracles.
Who acts: great saint · What happens: acquire · To what, where: appellation
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great saint), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 saint | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saint | amod |
| 3 | saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 acquired | nsubj |
| 4 | acquired | acquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 appellation | nmod:poss |
| 6 | appellation | appellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 acquired | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lal | case |
| 8 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 appellation | nmod |
| 9 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lal | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 miracles | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 miracles | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 miracles | nummod |
| 13 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 miracles | amod |
| 14 | miracles | miracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 acquired | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 acquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acquire | past | the great saint | Sheikh's appellation of Lal | by two remarkable miracles | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appellation=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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