Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 55

Only a few years before they had helped the King of Guzarat to drive out Humayun and in return had received Bassein and the whole Province of the north including Salsette Island.

Who acts: slabs · What happens: help, drive out, receive, include · To what, where: King, Humayun, Bassein, return

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slabs), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	8 helped	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 helped	obl:unmarked
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 helped	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 helped	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 helped	aux
8	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 helped	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Guzarat	case
12	Guzarat	Guzarat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 King	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drive	mark
14	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 helped	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 drive	compound:prt
16	Humayun	Humayun	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 drive	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 received	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 return	case
19	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 received	obl
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 received	aux
21	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 helped	conj
22	Bassein	Bassein	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 received	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Province	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Province	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Province	amod
26	Province	Province	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Bassein	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 north	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 north	det
29	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Province	nmod
30	including	include	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 Island	case
31	Salsette	Salsette	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Island	compound
32	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 north	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	help	past · perfect	slabs = slab		the King of Guzarat		year	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Beneficiary
2	drive out	to-infinitive	slabs = slab not said here	Humayun				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent humayun=Theme
3	receive	past · perfect	slabs = slab not said here	Bassein and the whole Province of the north include Salsette Island		return		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bassein=Theme in return=Location
4	include	gerund						vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: 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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 55

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 55