Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 50
Nadir the Afghan believing Murad and angry at what he believed to be the double dealing of Nur Mahomed Kalhoro, resolved to march into Sind and to seat Murad on the throne in his place.
Who acts: Nadir, Murad · What happens: believe, be, resolve, march · To what, where: double dealing, Sind, Nadir · 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, Murad), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Afghan | det |
| 3 | Afghan | Afghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nadir | appos |
| 4 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Afghan | advcl |
| 5 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 resolved | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 angry | cc |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Murad | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 angry | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 believed | nsubj |
| 11 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dealing | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dealing | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dealing | det |
| 15 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dealing | amod |
| 16 | dealing | dealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believed | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Nur | case |
| 18 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 dealing | nmod |
| 19 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Nur | flat |
| 20 | Kalhoro | Kalhoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Nur | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 resolved | punct |
| 22 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believing | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 march | mark |
| 24 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 resolved | xcomp |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 Sind | case |
| 26 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 march | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 seat | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 seat | mark |
| 29 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 march | conj |
| 30 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 seat | appos |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 throne | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 throne | det |
| 33 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seat | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 place | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 place | nmod:poss |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 throne | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nadir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | believe | past | Nadir | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the double dealing | of Nur | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | resolve | past | Murad | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | march | to-infinitive | Murad not said here | into Sind result; seat on the throne in Sind's place conj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sind=Result |
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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