Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 49
Nur Mahomed Kalhoro had taken the queen to be his concubine and had cut off the head of her paramour with a single stroke of his sword, just as if he had been a buffalo.
Who acts: Mahomed · What happens: take, be, cut off, stroke · To what, where: Mahomed, concubine, head, buffalo, sword
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), 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 | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Kalhoro | Kalhoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mahomed | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 concubine | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 concubine | cop |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 concubine | nmod:poss |
| 11 | concubine | concubine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cut | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cut | aux |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 taken | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cut | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 paramour | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 paramour | nmod:poss |
| 20 | paramour | paramour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 head | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 stroke | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stroke | det |
| 23 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stroke | amod |
| 24 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cut | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sword | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sword | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stroke | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 buffalo | punct |
| 29 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 buffalo | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 buffalo | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 buffalo | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 buffalo | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 buffalo | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 buffalo | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 buffalo | det |
| 36 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stroke | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | Mahomed Nur | the queen obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme queen=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | Mahomed's concubine | Mahomed nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut off | past · perfect | the head of Nur's paramour | with a single stroke of Mahomed's sword and a buffalo | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Mahomed | a buffalo | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stroke | Mahomed's sword | nom stroke «act 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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