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title: The old woman looked at him attentively and then blessed him, adding… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman looked at him attentively and then blessed him, adding “Murad the Bald, you will become a kardar,” or as we should say nowadays a tapedar or talati. Who acts: old woman, you, we. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency t
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 10

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The old woman looked at him attentively and then blessed him, adding “Murad the Bald, you will become a kardar,” or as we should say nowadays a tapedar or talati.

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**Who acts:** old woman, you, we · **What happens:** look, bless, add, become, say · **To what, where:** hair, Murad, kardar, tapedar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old woman, you, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:12:10
# text = The old woman looked at him attentively and then blessed him, adding “Murad the Bald, you will become a kardar,” or as we should say nowadays a tapedar or talati.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Bald	Bald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kardar	kardar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
31	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tapedar	tapedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	talati	talati	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  | at hair; attentively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 2 | **bless** | past | the old woman *not said here* | hair |  |  | then |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | the old woman *not said here* | Murad |  |  |  | the Bald *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | future | you | a kardar |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | we | a tapedar or talati |  |  |  | nowadays *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tapedar=Topic |

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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.

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**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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