Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 4

Indeed the Lakhi pass is known locally as the gate of the infernal regions; and an often quoted Persian couplet about Sehwan runs as follows:

Who acts: Sehwan · What happens: know, quote, run, follow · To what, where: Lakhi pass

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 (Sehwan), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 known	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pass	det
3	Lakhi	Lakhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pass	compound
4	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 known	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 known	aux:pass
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	locally	locally	ADV	_	6 known	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 known	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 regions	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 regions	det
13	infernal	infernal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 regions	amod
14	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gate	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 couplet	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 couplet	cc
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 couplet	det
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 quoted	advmod
19	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 couplet	amod
20	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 couplet	amod
21	couplet	couplet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 known	parataxis
22	about	about	SCONJ	_	24 runs	mark
23	Sehwan	Sehwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 runs	nsubj
24	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 couplet	advcl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 follows	mark
26	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 runs	advcl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		the Lakhi pass	as the gate of the infernal regions; a quoted Persian couplet parataxis; indeed, locally property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as gate=Attribute
2	quote speech: other	participle			often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	present	Sehwan			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	present	Sehwan not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 4

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 4