Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 26
Instead of the fixed kindly look, that she had been used to give him, her eyes flashed with demoniac fury and instead of a blessing, she cursed him “Murad the Bald,” she screamed at him “you will rise higher still, you will be hanged.”
Who acts: Allah, you · What happens: fix, look, use, give, flash, curse · To what, where: Allah, eyes, proverb, you · 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 (Allah, you), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 6 look | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 look | det |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 the | acl |
| 5 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 4 fixed | advmod |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 hanged | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 used | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 used | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 used | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 used | aux:pass |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 look | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 give | mark |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 used | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eyes | punct |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | iobj |
| 19 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 eyes | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 fury | case |
| 21 | demoniac | demoniac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fury | compound |
| 22 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flashed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 blessing | cc |
| 24 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 27 blessing | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 instead | fixed |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 blessing | det |
| 27 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fury | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cursed | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 cursed | nsubj |
| 30 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 used | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 cursed | obj |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Murad | punct |
| 33 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 cursed | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Bald | det |
| 35 | Bald | Bald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Murad | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Murad | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Murad | punct |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 screamed | nsubj |
| 39 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 cursed | parataxis |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 screamed | obl |
| 42 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 rise | punct |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 rise | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 rise | aux |
| 45 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 screamed | conj |
| 46 | higher | high | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 47 still | advmod |
| 47 | still | still | ADV | _ | 45 rise | advmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 hanged | aux |
| 51 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 hanged | aux:pass |
| 52 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 hanged | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 hanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | participle | kindly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | look | present | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | use | past · perfect · passive | Allah | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | Allah's eyes | proverb iobj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient eye=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flash | participle | Allah's eyes not said here | with demoniac fury and a blessing | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fury=Theme | ||||
| 6 | curse | past | Allah | proverb | Murad obj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | scream speech: express | past | Allah | at proverb | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location | ||||
| 8 | rise in a quote | future | you | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | hange in a quote | future · passive | you | tree rules |
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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