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title: He gathered round him a band of bad companions and all day and every… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He gathered round him a band of bad companions and all day and every day the royal palace resounded with the cries of the prince’s victims. Who acts: Amrai, royal palace, victims. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its depende
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 208

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He gathered round him a band of bad companions and all day and every day the royal palace resounded with the cries of the prince’s victims.

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**Who acts:** Amrai, royal palace, victims · **What happens:** gather, resound, cry · **To what, where:** band

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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 (Amrai, royal palace, victims), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:10:208
# text = He gathered round him a band of bad companions and all day and every day the royal palace resounded with the cries of the prince’s victims.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	resounded	resound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	victims	victim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | Amrai | a band of bad companions and all day |  |  |  | round king | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme |
| 2 | **resound** | participle | the royal palace |  |  |  | day | with the cries of the prince's victims | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with cry=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** |  | the prince's victims |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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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