Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 9

Then it occurred to him that the old woman might be a witch or sorceress, whom it might be well to propitiate; so he reverently went up to her and asked for her blessing.

Who acts: attention, old woman, hair, woman · What happens: occur, be, go up, ask, bless · To what, where: hair, witch, woman

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 (attention, old woman, hair, woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 occurred	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 occurred	nsubj
3	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 occurred	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 witch	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 witch	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 witch	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 witch	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 witch	det
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occurred	advcl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 sorceress	cc
15	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 witch	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 propitiate	punct
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 propitiate	obj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 propitiate	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 propitiate	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 propitiate	cop
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 propitiate	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 propitiate	mark
23	propitiate	propitiate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 witch	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
27	reverently	reverently	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 occurred	parataxis
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 went	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 asked	cc
33	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 went	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 blessing	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 blessing	nmod:poss
36	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 asked	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	occur	past	attention		hair	then		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	might	the old woman	a witch or sorceress			sorceress conj	tree rules
3	is	might	attention				a witch or sorceress obj; propitiate, well property	tree rules
4	go up	past	hair		woman		reverently property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	ask speech: ask	past	hair not said here				for woman's blessing	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bless		woman					nom blessing «act transitive»: 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 9

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 9