Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 61

The second time the river approached so rapidly that the disciples had to remove their master’s body in broad daylight instead of at night, as was seemly.

Who acts: river, disciples · What happens: approach, have, remove, be · To what, where: body, broad daylight

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 (river, disciples), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 approached	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 approached	nsubj
6	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 rapidly	advmod
8	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	6 approached	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 disciples	det
11	disciples	disciple	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 approached	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 remove	mark
14	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 master	nmod:poss
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 body	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 master	case
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remove	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 daylight	case
20	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 daylight	amod
21	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remove	obl
22	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	25 night	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 instead	fixed
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 night	case
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remove	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemly	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 seemly	mark
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seemly	cop
29	seemly	seemly	ADV	_	14 remove	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	past	the river			time	rapidly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the disciples					tree rules
3	remove	to-infinitive	the disciples not said here	pushings's master's body	broad daylight	night		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
4	is	past					seemly property	tree rules

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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 61