Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 272
Banbho taking some men with him, first rode through the streets of Brahmanabad, shouting “Victory to Dalu Rai Maharaj!”
Who acts: Banbho · What happens: take, ride, shout · To what, where: men, streets, Victory, Dalu Rai
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 (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 | Banbho | Banbho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 taking | nsubj |
| 2 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 men | det |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 taking | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 taking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 rode | advmod |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 taking | conj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 streets | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 streets | det |
| 12 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rode | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Brahmanabad | case |
| 14 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 streets | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shouting | punct |
| 16 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rode | advcl |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Victory | punct |
| 18 | Victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shouting | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Rai | case |
| 20 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Rai | compound |
| 21 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Victory | nmod |
| 22 | Maharaj | Maharaj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Rai | flat |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 Victory | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Banbho | some men | with man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | |||
| 2 | ride | past | Banbho not said here | the streets of Brahmanabad | first property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through street=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | Banbho not said here | Victory | Dalu Rai | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent victory=Topic to rai=Recipient |
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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