Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 291

Dalu Rai would at once have gone back to the Madu maiden; but Banbho who “had a crow’s wisdom” prevailed on him to spend the day and the following night on the late king’s funeral ceremonies.

Who acts: Dalu · What happens: go back, prevail, spend, follow · To what, where: Banbho, funeral ceremonies

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), 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	7 gone	nsubj
2	Rai	Rai	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Dalu	flat
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 gone	obl
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 maiden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maiden	det
11	Madu	Madu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 maiden	compound
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 prevailed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 Banbho	cc
15	Banbho	Banbho	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 prevailed	nsubj:pass
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 had	nsubj
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 prevailed	aux
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 crow	det
20	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wisdom	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 crow	case
22	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
24	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 gone	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 prevailed	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 spend	mark
28	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 prevailed	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spend	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 night	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 night	det
33	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 night	amod
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 day	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	41 ceremonies	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 king	det
37	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 king	amod
38	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ceremonies	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 king	case
40	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ceremonies	compound
41	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spend	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	would · perfect	Dalu				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	prevail	past · perfect · passive		Banbho		on Dalu	tree rules
3	spend	to-infinitive			day	on the late king's funeral ceremonies goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on ceremony=Goal
4	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «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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The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 291