Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 24
Tortured by his insatiable greed, Murad the Bald showered jewels and gold on the old woman and for the fourth time asked for her blessing.
Who acts: Bald · What happens: torture, shower, ask, bless · To what, where: jewels
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 (Bald), 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 | Tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 showered | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 greed | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 greed | nmod:poss |
| 4 | insatiable | insatiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 greed | amod |
| 5 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tortured | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Murad | punct |
| 7 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 greed | appos |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bald | det |
| 9 | Bald | Bald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 showered | nsubj |
| 10 | showered | shower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 showered | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gold | cc |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jewels | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 woman | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showered | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 asked | cc |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asked | obl |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 showered | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 blessing | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 26 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asked | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 showered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | torture | participle | the Bald not said here | by proverb's insatiable greed | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | shower | past | the Bald | jewels and gold | on the old woman | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme on woman=Destination | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Bald not said here | time | for Bald's blessing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | bless | Bald | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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