Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 74
Shah Karim became the spiritual follower of this fakir and grew up so renowned a saint that it was commonly said that whereas Bahawaldin, a rival saint, could make a live man dead, Shah Karim could make a dead man alive.
Who acts: Shah · What happens: become, grow up, renown, say, make · To what, where: spiritual follower, saint, follower, live man, dead man · 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 (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 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 2 | Karim | Karim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shah | flat |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 follower | det |
| 5 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 follower | amod |
| 6 | follower | follower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fakir | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fakir | det |
| 9 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 follower | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grew | compound:prt |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 renowned | advmod |
| 14 | renowned | renown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 saint | det |
| 16 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 renowned | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 said | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux:pass |
| 20 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 21 said | advmod |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 renowned | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 23 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 24 Bahawaldin | case |
| 24 | Bahawaldin | Bahawaldin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saint | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 saint | det |
| 27 | rival | rival | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 saint | amod |
| 28 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Bahawaldin | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Bahawaldin | punct |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 make | aux |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 33 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 man | amod |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obj |
| 35 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 make | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 37 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 make | nsubj |
| 38 | Karim | Karim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Shah | flat |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 make | aux |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 grew | advcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 man | det |
| 42 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 man | amod |
| 43 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 make | obj |
| 44 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 make | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Shah | the spiritual follower of this fakir | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow up | past | Shah not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | renown | past | Shah not said here | a saint | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · passive | follower | commonly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | make | could | a live man | whereas Bahawaldin; dead property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product | ||||
| 6 | make | could | Shah | a dead man | alive property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Product |
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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