Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 27
Poor Murad left the witch as she raved and gnashed her teeth and going home, tried in vain to put the matter out of his mind.
Who acts: Poor Murad, Allah, proverb · What happens: leave, rave, gnash, go, try, put · To what, where: witch, teeth, vain, matter, mind
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 (Poor Murad, Allah, proverb), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Murad | amod |
| 2 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 raved | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 raved | nsubj |
| 8 | raved | rave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gnashed | cc |
| 10 | gnashed | gnash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gnashed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 going | cc |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 gnashed | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tried | punct |
| 17 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 going | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 vain | case |
| 19 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tried | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 put | mark |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tried | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 matter | det |
| 23 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 mind | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 mind | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mind | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Poor Murad | the witch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rave speech: other | past | Allah | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gnash | past | Poor Murad not said here | Allah's teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | Poor Murad not said here | home property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | try | participle | Poor Murad not said here | vain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | put | to-infinitive | Poor Murad not said here | the matter | proverb's mind | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent matter=Theme out mind=Destination | |||
| 7 | mind | proverb | nom mind «cognition 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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