Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 48

Makhdum Nuh then called on all true Musulmans present to tie ropes to the building and pull it round; and lo! and behold! under the combined pressure of the prayers of the saints and the pushings of the faithful, the great mosque turned round slowly and then stopped dead.

Who acts: true Musulmans, saints · What happens: call, present, tie, pull, combine, turn round · To what, where: Makhdum, ropes, building, great mosque, prayers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (true Musulmans, saints), 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	Makhdum	Makhdum	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj:pass
2	Nuh	Nuh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Makhdum	flat
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 called	advmod
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	9 present	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 Musulmans	det
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Musulmans	amod
8	Musulmans	Musulman	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 present	nsubj
9	present	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tie	mark
11	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 present	xcomp
12	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tie	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 building	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 building	det
15	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tie	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pull	cc
17	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tie	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pull	obj
19	round	round	ADV	_	17 pull	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 pressure	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lo	cc
22	lo	lo	INTJ	_	30 pressure	discourse
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 lo	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 behold	cc
25	behold	behold	INTJ	_	22 lo	conj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 lo	punct
27	under	under	ADP	_	30 pressure	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pressure	det
29	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 pressure	amod
30	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 prayers	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 prayers	det
33	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pressure	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 saints	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 saints	det
36	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 prayers	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 pushings	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pushings	det
39	pushings	pushing	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 saints	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 faithful	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 faithful	det
42	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pushings	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 mosque	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 mosque	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 mosque	amod
46	mosque	mosque	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pressure	conj
47	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 mosque	acl
48	round	round	ADV	_	47 turned	advmod
49	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	47 turned	advmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 stopped	cc
51	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 stopped	advmod
52	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 turned	conj
53	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 stopped	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	participle · passive		Makhdum	then	the combined pressure of the prayers of the saints and the pushings of the faithful and the great mosque parataxis	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	present	present	all true Musulmans				tree rules
3	tie	to-infinitive	all true Musulmans not said here	ropes		to the building	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to building=Co-Patient
4	pull	infinitive	all true Musulmans not said here	building		round property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	combine	participle					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	turn round	participle		the great mosque not said here		round, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	stop	past			then	dead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	press			the prayers of the saints and the pushings of the faithful			nom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
9	pray		the saints and the pushings of the faithful				nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 48

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 48