Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 140
Another time Abdul Latif went to Kotri and there exposed the impostures of the Mullas who surrounded the governor Lalla Beg.
Who acts: Abdul · What happens: go, expose, surround · To what, where: Kotri, impostures, Mullas
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdul), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Abdul | flat |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Kotri | case |
| 7 | Kotri | Kotri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 exposed | cc |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 exposed | advmod |
| 10 | exposed | expose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 impostures | det |
| 12 | impostures | imposture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 exposed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Mullas | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Mullas | det |
| 15 | Mullas | mulla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 impostures | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Mullas | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 governor | det |
| 19 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 surrounded | obj |
| 20 | Lalla | Lalla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 governor | appos |
| 21 | Beg | Beg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lalla | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Abdul | Kotri | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kotri=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | expose | past | Abdul not said here | the impostures of the Mullas | there | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot imposture=Topic | |||
| 3 | surround | participle · passive | the Mullas | the governor obj | 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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