Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 271
It was to proclaim the prince as king in Brahmanabad and then to gallop with every available man to Depur where the ministers had assembled to carry out the late king’s wishes.
Who acts: plan, late king · What happens: be, gallop, assemble, carry out, wish · To what, where: Depur, wishes
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 (plan, late king), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proclaim | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proclaim | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 proclaim | mark |
| 4 | proclaim | proclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proclaim | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proclaim | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Brahmanabad | case |
| 10 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gallop | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 gallop | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 gallop | mark |
| 14 | gallop | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 proclaim | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 man | det |
| 17 | available | available | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gallop | obl |
| 19 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 25 assembled | mark |
| 20 | Depur | Depur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 assembled | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ministers | det |
| 23 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 assembled | aux |
| 25 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gallop | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 carry | mark |
| 27 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 assembled | advcl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 carry | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 30 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 king | amod |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 king | case |
| 33 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 carry | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proclaim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | plan | as king in Brahmanabad; the prince obj; proclaim property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gallop | to-infinitive | plan not said here | then | with every available man | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | assemble | past · perfect · passive | Depur | the ministers nsubj:pass | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry out | to-infinitive | the late king's wishes | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | wish | the late king | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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