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title: Poor Murad left the witch as she raved and gnashed her teeth and goi… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Murad left the witch as she raved and gnashed her teeth and going home, tried in vain to put the matter out of his mind. Who acts: Poor Murad, Allah, proverb. 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 eve
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 27

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Poor Murad left the witch as she raved and gnashed her teeth and going home, tried in vain to put the matter out of his mind.

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**Who acts:** Poor Murad, Allah, proverb · **What happens:** leave, rave, gnash, go, try, put · **To what, where:** witch, teeth, vain, matter, mind

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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 (Poor Murad, Allah, proverb), 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:pg76982:12:27
# text = Poor Murad left the witch as she raved and gnashed her teeth and going home, tried in vain to put the matter out of his mind.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	raved	rave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gnashed	gnash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Poor Murad | the witch |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme |
| 2 | **rave** *speech: other* | past | Allah |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gnash** | past | Poor Murad *not said here* | Allah's teeth |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | Poor Murad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **try** | participle | Poor Murad *not said here* |  |  | vain |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **put** | to-infinitive | Poor Murad *not said here* | the matter |  | proverb's mind |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent matter=Theme out mind=Destination |
| 7 | **mind** |  | proverb |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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