Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 18

She looked intently at him as before and blessing him for the third time said “Murad the Bald, you will become a subha” or as we should say a Collector of a district.

Who acts: woman, Murad, you, we · What happens: look, bless, say, become · To what, where: proverb, subha, 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 (woman, Murad, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	intently	intently	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 before	advmod
7	before	before	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
9	blessing	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 said	csubj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blessing	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blessing	obl
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Murad	punct
17	Murad	Murad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Bald	det
19	Bald	Bald	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Murad	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 become	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 become	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 become	aux
23	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 subha	det
25	subha	subha	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 become	xcomp
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 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	23 become	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 Collector	det
33	Collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 district	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 district	det
36	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Collector	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	woman			at proverb; before, intently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	bless	gerund		proverb	time		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Murad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	become in a quote	future	you	a subha			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	should	we	a Collector of a district			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 18