Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 70
Abdul Latif’s grandfather Shah Karim was a Sayad of Matari and so celebrated for his piety that his mausoleum at Bulree in the Karachi District is still the scene of an annual fair.
Who acts: grandfather, mausoleum · What happens: be, celebrate · To what, where: Sayad, scene
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 (grandfather, mausoleum), 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 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Abdul | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Abdul | case |
| 4 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sayad | nsubj |
| 5 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grandfather | appos |
| 6 | Karim | Karim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Shah | flat |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Sayad | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Sayad | det |
| 9 | Sayad | Sayad | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Matari | case |
| 11 | Matari | Matari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sayad | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 celebrated | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 celebrated | advmod |
| 14 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Sayad | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 piety | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 piety | nmod:poss |
| 17 | piety | piety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 celebrated | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 scene | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mausoleum | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mausoleum | mausoleum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 scene | nsubj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 Bulree | case |
| 22 | Bulree | Bulree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mausoleum | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 District | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 District | det |
| 25 | Karachi | Karachi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 District | compound |
| 26 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mausoleum | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 scene | cop |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 scene | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 scene | det |
| 30 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piety | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fair | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fair | det |
| 33 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fair | amod |
| 34 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 scene | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sayad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Abdul's grandfather | a Sayad | of Matari | tree rules | |||
| 2 | celebrate | participle | Abdul's grandfather not said here | for ABDUL's piety | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for piety=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | ABDUL's mausoleum at Bulree in the Karachi District | the scene | still | of a annual fair | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/9/70/