Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 185
The Pir of the tomb is the descendant of Jam the goatherd, who found Shah Latif buried up to the neck in sand.
Who acts: Pir, goatherd, Shah · What happens: be, find, bury up · To what, where: descendant, sand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Pir, goatherd, Shah), 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 | 2 Pir | det |
| 2 | Pir | Pir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 descendant | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tomb | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tomb | det |
| 5 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pir | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 descendant | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 descendant | det |
| 8 | descendant | descendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Jam | case |
| 10 | Jam | Jam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 descendant | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goatherd | det |
| 12 | goatherd | goatherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descendant | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 goatherd | acl:relcl |
| 16 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 buried | nsubj |
| 17 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Shah | flat |
| 18 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 buried | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 neck | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 neck | det |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buried | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sand | case |
| 24 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 descendant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Pir of the tomb | the descendant | of Jam; the goatherd appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | past | the goatherd | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bury up | past | Shah | sand | to the neck | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sand=Destination |
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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