Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 15
Not many months passed before Nur Mahomed Kalhoro, still more pleased with Murad’s steady and faithful work, promoted him to be a Naib Subha.
Who acts: Murad · What happens: pass, promote, be, work · To what, where: many months, hair, Naib Subha
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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 months | amod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 Kalhoro | case |
| 6 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Kalhoro | compound |
| 7 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Nur | flat |
| 8 | Kalhoro | Kalhoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pleased | punct |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 pleased | advmod |
| 12 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passed | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 work | case |
| 14 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 work | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Murad | case |
| 16 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 work | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 faithful | cc |
| 18 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 steady | conj |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pleased | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 promoted | punct |
| 21 | promoted | promote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 promoted | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 Subha | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 Subha | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Subha | det |
| 26 | Naib | Naib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Subha | compound |
| 27 | Subha | Subha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 promoted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle · passive | many months | before Nur Kalhoro | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme before kalhoro=Destination | ||||
| 2 | promote | past | hair | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a Naib Subha | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | Murad | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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