Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 76
The date of his birth is to be found in the Persian line on his mausoleum.
What happens: find · To what, where: date, Persian line
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: 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 date | det |
| 2 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 birth | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 birth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 date | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 found | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 line | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 line | det |
| 12 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 line | amod |
| 13 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 mausoleum | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mausoleum | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mausoleum | mausoleum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 line | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | the date of Shah's birth | the Persian line on Shah's mausoleum | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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