Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 46
As Murad listened to the words of the Afghan, Satan the Stoned seized his five senses.
Who acts: Murad, Satan · What happens: listen, seize · To what, where: five senses
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 (Murad, Satan), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 listened | mark |
| 2 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listened | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Afghan | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Afghan | det |
| 9 | Afghan | Afghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
| 11 | Satan | Satan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Stoned | det |
| 13 | Stoned | Stoned | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Satan | appos |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 senses | nmod:poss |
| 16 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 senses | nummod |
| 17 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seized | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Murad | to the words of the Afghan | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | Satan | Satan's five senses | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme |
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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