Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 43
Nadir Khan liked Nur Mahomed’s answer and instead of war there was peace, and instead of battles and skirmishes there were visits and reviews and banquets.
Who acts: Nadir, peace, Nur · What happens: like, be, answer · To what, where: answer
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 (Nadir, peace, Nur), 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 | Nadir | Nadir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nadir | flat |
| 3 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nur | flat |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Nur | case |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 liked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 9 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 11 war | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 instead | fixed |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | obl |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 liked | conj |
| 14 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 battles | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 battles | cc |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 19 battles | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 liked | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 skirmishes | cc |
| 21 | skirmishes | skirmish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 battles | conj |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 were | expl |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 battles | acl:relcl |
| 24 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 were | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 reviews | cc |
| 26 | reviews | review | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 visits | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 banquets | cc |
| 28 | banquets | banquet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 visits | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | Nadir | Nur's answer | instead battles and skirmishes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | peace | there | instead war | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer | Nur | nom answer «communication 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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