Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 260
The prince was unwilling to leave the Madu girl, but he could not refuse so grave a message, especially as Banbho was not only the wickedest but by far the wisest of his evil companions.
Who acts: prince, Banbho · What happens: unwill, leave, not refuse, grave, not be, be · To what, where: Madu girl, message
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 (prince, Banbho), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unwilling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unwilling | aux |
| 4 | unwilling | unwill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 leave | mark |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unwilling | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | Madu | Madu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | compound |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 refuse | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 refuse | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 refuse | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 refuse | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 refuse | advmod |
| 15 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unwilling | parataxis |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 grave | advmod |
| 17 | grave | grave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 refuse | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 message | det |
| 19 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wickedest | punct |
| 21 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 28 wickedest | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 wickedest | case |
| 23 | Banbho | Banbho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 wickedest | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 wickedest | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 wickedest | advmod |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 wickedest | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wickedest | det |
| 28 | wickedest | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 unwilling | parataxis |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 wisest | cc |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 far | case |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 wisest | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 wisest | det |
| 33 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 wickedest | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 companions | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 companions | nmod:poss |
| 36 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 companions | amod |
| 37 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 wisest | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unwilling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unwill | past · progressive | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the Madu girl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not refuse | could | prince | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grave not said to happen | infinitive | prince not said here | a message | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | Banbho | especially, wicked property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | Banbho not said here | of prince's evil companions | tree rules |
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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