Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 11
Murad thought no more about the prophecy until one day Nur Mahomed Kalhoro, in return for Murad’s honesty and hard work, promoted him from jamadar of grass-cutters to be a kardar.
Who acts: Murad · What happens: think, promote, be · To what, where: more, hair, jamadar, kardar
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 (Murad), 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 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 thought | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 prophecy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prophecy | det |
| 7 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl |
| 8 | until | until | ADP | _ | 13 Kalhoro | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Kalhoro | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kalhoro | compound |
| 12 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Nur | flat |
| 13 | Kalhoro | Kalhoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 return | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 return | case |
| 16 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Kalhoro | appos |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 honesty | case |
| 18 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 honesty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Murad | case |
| 20 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 return | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 work | cc |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 work | amod |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 honesty | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 promoted | punct |
| 25 | promoted | promote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 promoted | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 jamadar | case |
| 28 | jamadar | jamadar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 promoted | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 cutters | case |
| 30 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cutters | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 grass | punct |
| 32 | cutters | cutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 jamadar | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 kardar | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 kardar | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 kardar | det |
| 36 | kardar | kardar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 promoted | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Murad | more about the prophecy | until Nur Kalhoro one day | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | |||
| 2 | promote | past | hair | jamadar of grass cutters | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a kardar | 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.
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