Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 45
He sent for Murad and begged him to speak the truth: “If my queen and servant have really gone to Mecca, it is useless to search for them here; but if Nur Mahomed Kalhoro is secretly keeping my queen, then I shall slay him and give his throne to the man, who tells me the whole truth.”
Who acts: Nadir, queen, truth, Nur, man · What happens: send, beg, speak, go, be, search · To what, where: Nadir, truth, Mecca, queen, throne, man · 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 (Nadir, queen, truth, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Murad | case |
| 4 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 begged | cc |
| 6 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begged | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 speak | mark |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 begged | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 truth | det |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speak | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 useless | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 useless | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 gone | mark |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 queen | nmod:poss |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 servant | cc |
| 18 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 queen | conj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | aux |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 gone | advmod |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 useless | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Mecca | case |
| 23 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 gone | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gone | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 useless | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 useless | cop |
| 27 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 truth | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 search | mark |
| 29 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 useless | advcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 search | obl |
| 32 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 search | advmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 slay | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 48 slay | cc |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 keeping | mark |
| 36 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 keeping | nsubj |
| 37 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Nur | flat |
| 38 | Kalhoro | Kalhoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Nur | flat |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 keeping | aux |
| 40 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 41 keeping | advmod |
| 41 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 slay | advcl |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 queen | nmod:poss |
| 43 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 keeping | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 keeping | punct |
| 45 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 slay | advmod |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 slay | nsubj |
| 47 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 slay | aux |
| 48 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 slay | obj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 give | cc |
| 51 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 slay | conj |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 throne | nmod:poss |
| 53 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 give | obj |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 man | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 man | det |
| 56 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 give | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 tells | punct |
| 58 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 59 tells | nsubj |
| 59 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 man | acl:relcl |
| 60 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 59 tells | iobj |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 truth | det |
| 62 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 truth | amod |
| 63 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 tells | obj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
| 65 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Nadir | for Murad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Nadir not said here | Nadir | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nadir not said here | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | my queen and servant | Mecca | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mecca=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | truth | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | search in a quote | to-infinitive | truth not said here | here | for queen | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | |||
| 7 | keep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · progressive | Nur | my queen | secretly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | |||
| 8 | slay in a quote | shall | Nadir | Nadir | then | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 9 | give in a quote | infinitive | Nadir not said here | Nadir's throne | the man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent throne=Theme to man=Recipient | |||
| 10 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the man | the whole truth | Nadir | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient truth=Topic |
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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