Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 14

Again the old woman looked at him intently, blessed him and added “Murad the Bald, you will be a naib subha,” or as we should say nowadays a Deputy Collector.

Who acts: old woman, you, we · What happens: look, bless, add, be, say · To what, where: hair, Murad, naib subha, Deputy Collector · 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	Again	again	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	obl
8	intently	intently	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blessed	punct
10	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blessed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 added	cc
13	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blessed	conj
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Murad	punct
15	Murad	Murad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 added	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Bald	det
17	Bald	Bald	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Murad	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 subha	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 subha	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 subha	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 subha	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 subha	det
23	naib	naib	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 subha	compound
24	subha	subha	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Murad	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 subha	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 subha	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 say	cc
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 say	mark
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Murad	conj
32	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	35 Collector	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 Collector	det
34	Deputy	deputy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Collector	amod
35	Collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the old woman		again	at hair; intently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	bless	past		hair			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	add speech: assert	past		Murad			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murad=Patient
4	is a in a quote	future	you	a naib subha			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	should	we	a Deputy Collector			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collector=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 14

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 14