Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 97
The Musulman invasion swept away the temple of Shiva, but the memory of the pious recluse lingered on; and when Lal Shahbaz came and worked miracles at the spot where Brartrahari had lived, the Hindus declared that Lal Shahbaz was his reincarnation.
Who acts: Musulman invasion, memory, Lal, Brartrahari, Hindus · What happens: sweep away, linger on, come, work, live, declare · To what, where: temple, miracles, spot, reincarnation
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 (Musulman invasion, memory, Lal, Brartrahari), 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 invasion | det |
| 2 | Musulman | Musulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 invasion | compound |
| 3 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swept | nsubj |
| 4 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 swept | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 temple | det |
| 7 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swept | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Shiva | case |
| 9 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 temple | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lingered | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 lingered | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 memory | det |
| 13 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lingered | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 recluse | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 recluse | det |
| 16 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 recluse | amod |
| 17 | recluse | recluse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 memory | nmod |
| 18 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swept | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 lingered | compound:prt |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 23 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 24 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Lal | flat |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swept | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 worked | cc |
| 27 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | conj |
| 28 | miracles | miracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 worked | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 spot | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 spot | det |
| 31 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 worked | obl |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 lived | advmod |
| 33 | Brartrahari | Brartrahari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 lived | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 lived | aux |
| 35 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 spot | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 declared | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Hindus | det |
| 38 | Hindus | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Plur | 39 declared | nsubj |
| 39 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 reincarnation | mark |
| 41 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 reincarnation | nsubj |
| 42 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Lal | flat |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 reincarnation | cop |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 reincarnation | nmod:poss |
| 45 | reincarnation | reincarnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 declared | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep away | past | the Musulman invasion | the temple of Shiva | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme temple=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | linger on | participle | the memory of the pious recluse | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Lal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | work | past | Lal not said here | miracles | the spot | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent miracle=Material | |||
| 5 | live | past · perfect | Brartrahari | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | declare speech: other | past | the Hindus | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | Lal | Brartrahari's reincarnation | Brartrahari nmod:poss | 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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