Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 16

There is a French proverb which says L’appétit vient en mangeant, that is to say the greedy are never satisfied; and Murad began to feel soon that the post of Naib Subha was far beneath his merits.

Who acts: French proverb, that, greedy, Murad, post · What happens: be, say, not be, begin, feel · 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 (French proverb, that, greedy, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 proverb	det
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proverb	amod
5	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proverb	acl:relcl
8	L’appétit	L'appétit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
9	vient	vient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mangeant	amod
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mangeant	compound
11	mangeant	mangeant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 L’appétit	list
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 say	nsubj:outer
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 L’appétit	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 greedy	det
18	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 satisfied	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 satisfied	cop
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 satisfied	advmod
21	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 say	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Murad	cc
24	Murad	Murad	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 is	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 feel	mark
27	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 feel	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 merits	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 post	det
31	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 merits	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Naib	case
33	Naib	Naib	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 post	nmod
34	Subha	Subha	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Naib	flat
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 merits	cop
36	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 merits	advmod
37	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	39 merits	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 merits	nmod:poss
39	merits	merit	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 feel	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a French proverb	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a French proverb		L’appétit vient en mangeant nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	be speech: assert	present	that		say property	tree rules
4	not is	present	the greedy		satisfied property	tree rules
5	begin	past	Murad			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	feel	to-infinitive	Murad not said here		soon property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	is	past	the post of Naib		beneath L’appétit's merits; L’appétit = l'appétit nmod:poss; far property	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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 16

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 16