Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 19
Murad the Bald not very long afterwards was given charge of a district, thereby reaching a post far above his deserts.
What happens: give, reach, charge · To what, where: post, long given charge, district
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: 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 | 10 charge | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bald | det |
| 3 | Bald | Bald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Murad | appos |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 long | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 charge | amod |
| 7 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 9 given | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 charge | amod |
| 10 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 district | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 district | det |
| 13 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 charge | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reaching | punct |
| 15 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 16 reaching | advmod |
| 16 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 charge | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 post | det |
| 18 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reaching | obj |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 reaching | advmod |
| 20 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 deserts | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 deserts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 far | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 charge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | afterwards property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | reach | gerund | a post | far, thereby property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent post=Theme | ||||
| 4 | charge | a district | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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