Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 297
With these words King Dalu Rai left Banbho to manage as best he could, and rode off with all speed to the conquest of the Madu maiden.
Who acts: King, Banbho · What happens: leave, manage, ride off · To what, where: Banbho, best, conquest
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 (King, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | obl |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj |
| 5 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 6 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Banbho | Banbho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 manage | mark |
| 10 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 left | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 best | case |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 manage | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 could | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 best | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rode | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rode | cc |
| 17 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 rode | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 speed | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 speed | det |
| 21 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 conquest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 conquest | det |
| 24 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 maiden | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 maiden | det |
| 27 | Madu | Madu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 maiden | compound |
| 28 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 conquest | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | King | Banbho | with this words | tree rules | |||
| 2 | manage | to-infinitive | Banbho not said here | best | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride off | past | King not said here | the conquest of the Madu maiden | with all speed | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to conquest=Trajectory |
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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