--- title: But the prince pushed past his servants and took the Madu girl to a… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics description: But the prince pushed past his servants and took the Madu girl to a distant part of the palace and there tried to win her consent. Who acts: prince, palace. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/10/255/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/) / [Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/10/) / 255 # Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 255 But the prince pushed past his servants and took the Madu girl to a distant part of the palace and there tried to win her consent. **Who acts:** prince, palace · **What happens:** push, take, try, win, consent · **To what, where:** servants, Madu girl, distant part, consent 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 (prince, palace), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76982:10:255 # text = But the prince pushed past his servants and took the Madu girl to a distant part of the palace and there tried to win her consent. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 past past ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Madu Madu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 22 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 consent consent NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | past | the prince | | | prince's servants | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past servant=Trajectory | | 2 | **take** | past | the prince *not said here* | the Madu girl | | a distant part of the palace | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to part=Destination | | 3 | **try** | past | the prince *not said here* | | | there | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | palace's consent | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Eventuality | | 5 | **consent** | | palace | | | | | | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 254](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/10/254/) - next →: [sentence 256](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/10/256/) - ↑ back to [Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/10/)