Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 54
Mahomed Nur was shocked at the ingratitude of the base born wretch on whom he had lavished favours.
Who acts: Mahomed · What happens: be, bear, lavish · To what, where: ingratitude, favours
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 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shocked | nsubj |
| 2 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mahomed | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shocked | cop |
| 4 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 ingratitude | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ingratitude | det |
| 7 | ingratitude | ingratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shocked | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wretch | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wretch | det |
| 10 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | compound |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wretch | amod |
| 12 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ingratitude | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wretch | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lavished | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lavished | aux |
| 17 | lavished | lavish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 whom | acl:relcl |
| 18 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lavished | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mahomed | the ingratitude of the born wretch on the ingratitude of the born wretch on the ingratitude | shocked property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bear | participle | base compound | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | lavish | past · perfect | Mahomed | favours | tree rules |
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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