Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 24
According to the Islamic legend, Elijah was in a former life a very holy man indeed, named Balya Ebn Malkan.
Who acts: Elijah · What happens: accord, be, name · To what, where: former life, holy man
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 (Elijah), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 legend | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 legend | det |
| 4 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legend | amod |
| 5 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 life | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legend | punct |
| 7 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 life | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 life | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 11 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 holy | advmod |
| 15 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 life | conj |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 16 man | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 named | punct |
| 19 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 man | acl |
| 20 | Balya | Balya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 named | xcomp |
| 21 | Ebn | Ebn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Balya | flat |
| 22 | Malkan | Malkan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Balya | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 life | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | Elijah | a former life and a holy man | accord the Islamic legend; a holy man conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | participle | a holy man not said here | Balya xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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