Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 275
While Banbho was thus rousing his master to action, the prime-minister and the commander-in-chief and the principal nobles of Brahmanabad were seated together in one of the council rooms of Depur.
Who acts: Banbho · What happens: rouse, seat · To what, where: master, prime minister
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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 rousing | mark |
| 2 | Banbho | Banbho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rousing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rousing | aux |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 rousing | advmod |
| 5 | rousing | rouse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 seated | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rousing | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 action | case |
| 9 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rousing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rousing | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 minister | det |
| 12 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 minister | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 prime | punct |
| 14 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 chief | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chief | det |
| 17 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chief | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 chief | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 chief | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 in | punct |
| 21 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 minister | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 nobles | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 nobles | det |
| 24 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nobles | amod |
| 25 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 chief | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Brahmanabad | case |
| 27 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 nobles | nmod |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 seated | aux:pass |
| 29 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 30 | together | together | ADV | _ | 29 seated | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 seated | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 rooms | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rooms | det |
| 35 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rooms | compound |
| 36 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 one | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Depur | case |
| 38 | Depur | Depur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 rooms | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past · progressive | Banbho | Banbho's master | to action; thus property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient | |||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | the prime minister and the chief commander and the principal nobles of Brahmanabad | in one of the council rooms of Depur; together property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in one=Location |
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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