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title: She looked intently at him as before and blessing him for the third… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: She looked intently at him as before and blessing him for the third time said “Murad the Bald, you will become a subha” or as we should say a Collector of a district. Who acts: woman, Murad, you, we. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its depen
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 18

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She looked intently at him as before and blessing him for the third time said “Murad the Bald, you will become a subha” or as we should say a Collector of a district.

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**Who acts:** woman, Murad, you, we · **What happens:** look, bless, say, become · **To what, where:** proverb, subha, Collector · **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 (woman, Murad, 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:pg76982:12:18
# text = She looked intently at him as before and blessing him for the third time said “Murad the Bald, you will become a subha” or as we should say a Collector of a district.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	intently	intently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	blessing	bless	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Bald	Bald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	subha	subha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | woman |  |  |  |  | at proverb; before, intently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 2 | **bless** | gerund |  | proverb |  |  | time |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Murad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | future | you | a subha |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | we | a Collector of a district |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collector=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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