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title: Murad the Bald not very long afterwards was given charge of a distri… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Murad the Bald not very long afterwards was given charge of a district, thereby reaching a post far above his deserts. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 19

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Murad the Bald not very long afterwards was given charge of a district, thereby reaching a post far above his deserts.

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**What happens:** give, reach, charge · **To what, where:** post, long given charge, district

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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: 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:pg76982:12:19
# text = Murad the Bald not very long afterwards was given charge of a district, thereby reaching a post far above his deserts.
1	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bald	Bald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
20	above	above	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V» |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund |  | a post |  |  |  | far, thereby *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent post=Theme |
| 4 | **charge** |  |  | a district |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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