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title: Tortured by his insatiable greed, Murad the Bald showered jewels and… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Tortured by his insatiable greed, Murad the Bald showered jewels and gold on the old woman and for the fourth time asked for her blessing. Who acts: Bald. 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 24

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Tortured by his insatiable greed, Murad the Bald showered jewels and gold on the old woman and for the fourth time asked for her blessing.

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**Who acts:** Bald · **What happens:** torture, shower, ask, bless · **To what, where:** jewels

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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 (Bald), 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:pg76982:12:24
# text = Tortured by his insatiable greed, Murad the Bald showered jewels and gold on the old woman and for the fourth time asked for her blessing.
1	Tortured	torture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bald	Bald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	showered	shower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **torture** | participle | the Bald *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by proverb's insatiable greed | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **shower** | past | the Bald | jewels and gold |  |  |  | on the old woman | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme on woman=Destination |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Bald *not said here* |  |  |  | time | for Bald's blessing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bless** |  | Bald |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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