Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 44
Nevertheless Nadir the Afghan was not quite sure that Nur Mahomed Kalhoro had not seized his beautiful queen and hidden her in some deep recess of his own harem.
Who acts: Nadir · What happens: not be, not seize, hide, recess · To what, where: Nur, deep recess, own harem
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), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 2 Nadir | advmod |
| 2 | Nadir | Nadir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Afghan | det |
| 4 | Afghan | Afghan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nadir | appos |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sure | advmod |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 sure | advmod |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 seized | mark |
| 10 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Nur | flat |
| 12 | Kalhoro | Kalhoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Nur | flat |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seized | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 seized | advmod |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 queen | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 queen | amod |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hidden | cc |
| 20 | hidden | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seized | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hidden | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 recess | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 recess | det |
| 24 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 recess | amod |
| 25 | recess | recess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hidden | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 harem | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 harem | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 harem | amod |
| 29 | harem | harem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 recess | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Nadir | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not seize | past · perfect · passive | Nur | Nadir's beautiful queen obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | Nur | some deep recess of Nadir's own harem | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in recess=Location | ||||
| 4 | recess | Nadir's own harem | nom recess «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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