Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 7

Murad used daily to inspect the grass-cutters’ work and when on this duty, he noticed an old half-mad woman called Fatima.

Who acts: Murad, hair, grass cutters · What happens: use, inspect, notice, call, work · To what, where: work, old half mad woman, duty · 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 (Murad, hair, grass cutters), 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	Murad	Murad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	daily	daily	ADV	_	2 used	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 inspect	mark
5	inspect	inspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cutters	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cutters	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 grass	punct
9	cutters	cutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 work	nmod:poss
10	’	's	PART	_	9 cutters	case
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inspect	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 noticed	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 noticed	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 duty	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 duty	det
16	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 noticed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 duty	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 noticed	nsubj
19	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 woman	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 woman	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 half	punct
24	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 noticed	obj
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 woman	acl
27	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	Murad			daily property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	inspect	to-infinitive	Murad not said here	the grass cutters's work			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
3	notice	past	hair	a old half mad woman	this duty		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	call	participle		a old half mad woman not said here		Fatima xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	work		the grass cutters				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 7