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title: Murad used daily to inspect the grass-cutters’ work and when on this… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Murad used daily to inspect the grass-cutters’ work and when on this duty, he noticed an old half-mad woman called Fatima. Who acts: Murad, hair, grass cutters. 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 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 7

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Murad used daily to inspect the grass-cutters’ work and when on this duty, he noticed an old half-mad woman called Fatima.

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**Who acts:** Murad, hair, grass cutters · **What happens:** use, inspect, notice, call, work · **To what, where:** work, old half mad woman, duty · **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 (Murad, hair, grass cutters), 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:pg76982:12:7
# text = Murad used daily to inspect the grass-cutters’ work and when on this duty, he noticed an old half-mad woman called Fatima.
1	Murad	Murad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	inspect	inspect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cutters	cutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Murad |  |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **inspect** | to-infinitive | Murad *not said here* | the grass cutters's work |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 3 | **notice** | past | hair | a old half mad woman |  | this duty |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | a old half mad woman *not said here* |  |  |  | Fatima *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work** |  | the grass cutters |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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