Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 281
Dalu Rai and Banbho followed by their troopers rushed up the stairs and Banbho knocking at the door, demanded entrance in the king’s name.
Who acts: Dalu, stairs, king · What happens: follow, rush up, knock, demand, name · To what, where: Dalu, stairs, demanded entrance
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 (Dalu, stairs, 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 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dalu | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Banbho | cc |
| 4 | Banbho | Banbho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dalu | conj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Dalu | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 troopers | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 troopers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | troopers | trooper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 followed | obl:agent |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 rushed | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stairs | det |
| 12 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rushed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Banbho | cc |
| 14 | Banbho | Banbho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stairs | conj |
| 15 | knocking | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stairs | acl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knocking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 entrance | punct |
| 20 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 entrance | amod |
| 21 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knocking | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 name | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 king | case |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entrance | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle | Dalu and Banbho not said here | nobles's troopers obl:agent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rush up | past | Dalu and Banbho | the stairs and Banbho | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | knock | gerund | the stairs and Banbho not said here | demanded entrance in the king's name | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | |||
| 4 | demand speech: request | participle | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | name | the king | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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