Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 53
He told the latter the lying tale told by his subha Murad.
Who acts: Nadir · What happens: tell, lie · To what, where: lying tale · 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), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 latter | det |
| 4 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 told | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tale | det |
| 6 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 tale | amod |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tale | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 subha | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 subha | nmod:poss |
| 11 | subha | subha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl:agent |
| 12 | Murad | Murad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 subha | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Nadir | the lying tale | latter property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | the lying tale not said here | Nadir's subha obl:agent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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