Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 6
Somewhere in the tenth century A.D. a Hindu king called Dalurai ruled at Alor.
Who acts: Hindu king · What happens: call, rule · To what, where: Hindu king, Alor · 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 (Hindu king), 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 | Somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 ruled | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 century | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 century | det |
| 4 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 century | amod |
| 5 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Somewhere | obl |
| 6 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 century | appos |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Somewhere | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 9 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 king | amod |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ruled | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 king | acl |
| 12 | Dalurai | Dalurai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Alor | case |
| 15 | Alor | Alor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ruled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a Hindu king not said here | Dalurai xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rule | past | a Hindu king | Alor | somewhere property | vn dub-29.3.2 «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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