Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 10

The old woman looked at him attentively and then blessed him, adding “Murad the Bald, you will become a kardar,” or as we should say nowadays a tapedar or talati.

Who acts: old woman, you, we · What happens: look, bless, add, become, say · To what, where: hair, Murad, kardar, tapedar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, you, we), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl
7	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blessed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 blessed	advmod
10	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blessed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 adding	punct
13	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 blessed	advcl
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Murad	punct
15	Murad	Murad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 adding	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Bald	det
17	Bald	Bald	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 adding	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 become	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 become	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 become	aux
21	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 blessed	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 kardar	det
23	kardar	kardar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 become	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kardar	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 kardar	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 say	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 say	mark
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 say	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 say	aux
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 become	conj
31	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	30 say	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tapedar	det
33	tapedar	tapedar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 talati	cc
35	talati	talati	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tapedar	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the old woman			at hair; attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	bless	past	the old woman not said here	hair	then		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	add speech: assert	gerund	the old woman not said here	Murad		the Bald obj	tree rules
4	become in a quote	future	you	a kardar			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	should	we	a tapedar or talati		nowadays property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tapedar=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 10

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 10