Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 36
Nur Mahomed Kalhoro enquired of Murad and learnt that the guilty couple had fled, but that the diamond and the manuscript were safe in his treasury.
Who acts: Mahomed, guilty couple, diamond · What happens: enquire, learn, flee, be · To what, where: treasury · 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 (Mahomed, guilty couple, diamond), 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 | Nur | nur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mahomed | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 enquired | nsubj |
| 3 | Kalhoro | Kalhoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mahomed | flat |
| 4 | enquired | enquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Murad | case |
| 6 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 enquired | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 learnt | cc |
| 8 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enquired | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 fled | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 couple | det |
| 11 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 couple | amod |
| 12 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fled | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fled | aux |
| 14 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 learnt | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 safe | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 safe | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 safe | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 diamond | det |
| 19 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 safe | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 manuscript | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 manuscript | det |
| 22 | manuscript | manuscript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 diamond | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 safe | cop |
| 24 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 enquired | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 treasury | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 27 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 safe | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enquire speech: other | past | Mahomed Nur | of Murad | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of murad=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | Mahomed Nur not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | flee | past · perfect | the guilty couple | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the diamond and the manuscript | Mahomed's treasury | safe property | 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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