Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 293
Next morning Banbho pressed him to hold a Darbar and win over the state officers and townspeople by concessions and gifts.
Who acts: Banbho · What happens: press, hold, win · To what, where: Dalu, Darbar, state officers
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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pressed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Banbho | Banbho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pressed | nsubj |
| 4 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pressed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hold | mark |
| 7 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pressed | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Darbar | det |
| 9 | Darbar | Darbar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 win | cc |
| 11 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pressed | conj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 officers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 officers | det |
| 14 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 officers | compound |
| 15 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 win | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 townspeople | cc |
| 17 | townspeople | townspeople | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 officers | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 concessions | case |
| 19 | concessions | concession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 win | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gifts | cc |
| 21 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 concessions | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | Banbho | Dalu | morning | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | |||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | Banbho not said here | a Darbar | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent darbar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | win | present | Banbho not said here | the state officers and townspeople | by concessions and gifts | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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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