Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 28
Now it so happened that the Afghan ruler of Multan, Nadir Khan by name, lost the youngest and most beautiful of his wives.
Who acts: it, Afghan ruler · What happens: happen, lose · To what, where: youngest
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 (it, Afghan ruler), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 lost | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ruler | det |
| 7 | Afghan | Afghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ruler | amod |
| 8 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Multan | case |
| 10 | Multan | Multan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ruler | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nadir | punct |
| 12 | Nadir | Nadir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Multan | conj |
| 13 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Nadir | flat |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 name | case |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Nadir | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ruler | punct |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 youngest | det |
| 19 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 lost | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beautiful | cc |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 beautiful | advmod |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lost | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wives | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wives | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 beautiful | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | the Afghan ruler of Multan and Nadir by name | the youngest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Eventuality |
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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