Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 179

When they reached Brahmanabad, they found that Dalu Rai had recently issued a law that every young married woman should be brought to his couch for at least one night.

Who acts: relatives, young · What happens: reach, find, issue, marry, bring · To what, where: Brahmanabad, Dalu, woman, young · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relatives, young), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	advcl
4	Brahmanabad	Brahmanabad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 issued	mark
9	Dalu	Dalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 issued	nsubj:pass
10	Rai	Rai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Dalu	flat
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 issued	aux
12	recently	recently	ADV	_	13 issued	advmod
13	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 found	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 law	det
15	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 issued	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 brought	obj
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 young	det
18	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	nsubj:pass
19	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 young	acl
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 married	obj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 brought	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 brought	aux:pass
23	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 law	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 couch	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 couch	nmod:poss
26	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 night	case
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 least	case
29	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 one	nmod
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 night	nummod
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	relatives = relative	Brahmanabad			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent brahmanabad=Theme
2	find	past	relatives = relative				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	issue	past · perfect · passive		Dalu		a law obj; recently property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal law=Theme
4	marry	participle	every young not said here	woman			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
5	bring	should · passive		every young	night	to Dalu's couch; a law obj	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination that=Theme

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.

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 179

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 179