Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 6

So completely had his hair vanished, that you might have looked all over his head from north to south and from east to west and then any other way you liked, but you would not have found a single hair on any part of it.

Who acts: hair, you · What happens: have, vanish, look, like, not find · To what, where: other way, single hair, part

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 (hair, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	completely	completely	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vanished	nsubj
6	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 looked	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 looked	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 looked	aux
12	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 vanished	conj
13	all	all	ADV	_	16 head	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl:unmarked
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 north	case
18	north	north	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 south	case
20	south	south	ADV	_	18 north	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 east	cc
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 east	case
23	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 north	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 west	case
25	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 east	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 way	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 way	advmod
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 way	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 west	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 liked	nsubj
32	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 way	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 found	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 found	cc
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 found	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 found	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 found	advmod
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 found	aux
39	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 had	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 hair	det
41	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hair	amod
42	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 found	obj
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 part	case
44	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	45 part	det
45	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hair	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 part	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past					completely property	tree rules
2	vanish	past	Sind's hair					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	might · perfect	you			then	over Sind's head; north property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over head=Theme
4	like	past	you	any other way not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme
5	not find	would · perfect	you	a single hair	any part of part			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Topic

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 6