Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 22

But after a year or two be began to think that the old woman, who had raised him so high, might raise him higher still, might make him a king or perhaps even emperor of Delhi.

What happens: be, think, raise, make · To what, where: old woman, proverb, king

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 year	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 two	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 year	conj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	cop
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 think	mark
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 woman	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 think	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 raised	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 raised	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 raised	aux
18	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 woman	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 raised	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 high	advmod
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 raised	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 raise	punct
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 raise	aux
24	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 think	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 raise	obj
26	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 still	advmod
27	still	still	ADV	_	24 raise	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 make	punct
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 make	aux
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 raise	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 make	obj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 emperor	cc
35	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	37 emperor	advmod
36	even	even	ADV	_	37 emperor	advmod
37	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 king	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Delhi	case
39	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 emperor	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			year	begin property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive				the old woman ccomp	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	raise	past · perfect · passive	the old woman			proverb obj; high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination
4	raise	might	proverb		still		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	make	might	a king or emperor of Delhi	proverb			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary king=Product

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 22