Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 208
He gathered round him a band of bad companions and all day and every day the royal palace resounded with the cries of the prince’s victims.
Who acts: Amrai, royal palace, victims · What happens: gather, resound, cry · To what, where: band
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 (Amrai, royal palace, victims), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathered | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 band | det |
| 6 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 companions | case |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 companions | amod |
| 9 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 band | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 day | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 companions | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 resounded | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 resounded | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 17 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 palace | amod |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 resounded | nsubj |
| 19 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gathered | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 cries | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cries | det |
| 22 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 resounded | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 victims | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 victims | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 prince | case |
| 27 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cries | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | Amrai | a band of bad companions and all day | round king | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme | |||
| 2 | resound | participle | the royal palace | day | with the cries of the prince's victims | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with cry=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry | the prince's victims | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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