Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 274
This done, Banbho returned to the prince’s palace and he and the prince and his companions and all the guards whom they could muster, set off together at headlong speed for Depur.
Who acts: Banbho, guards · What happens: do, return, companion, muster, set off · To what, where: This, guards, headlong speed
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, guards), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 returned | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | Banbho | Banbho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 companions | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 companions | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 prince | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 he | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 companions | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 companions | nmod:poss |
| 18 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returned | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 guards | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 guards | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 guards | det |
| 22 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 companions | conj |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 muster | obj |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 muster | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 muster | aux |
| 26 | muster | muster | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 guards | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 muster | conj |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 set | compound:prt |
| 30 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 set | advmod |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 speed | case |
| 32 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 speed | amod |
| 33 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 Depur | case |
| 35 | Depur | Depur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 speed | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | return | past | Banbho | to the prince's palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | companion | Banbho | all guards conj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | muster | could | guards = guard | all guards | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | set off | infinitive | guards = guard not said here | headlong speed for Depur | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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