Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 23
After all stranger things had happened before and “Allah alone knoweth all.”
Who acts: stranger things, Allah · What happens: happen, know · To what, where: all
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 (stranger things, Allah), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 happened | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 things | det |
| 3 | stranger | strange | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | aux |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 happened | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knoweth | cc |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 knoweth | punct |
| 10 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 knoweth | nsubj |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 Allah | advmod |
| 12 | knoweth | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 knoweth | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 knoweth | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 knoweth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · perfect | all stranger things | before property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Allah | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |
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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