---
title: The prince was unwilling to leave the Madu girl, but he could not re… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince was unwilling to leave the Madu girl, but he could not refuse so grave a message, especially as Banbho was not only the wickedest but by far the wisest of his evil companions. Who acts: prince, Banbho. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah a
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/10/260/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 260

# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 260

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The prince was unwilling to leave the Madu girl, but he could not refuse so grave a message, especially as Banbho was not only the wickedest but by far the wisest of his evil companions.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** prince, Banbho · **What happens:** unwill, leave, not refuse, grave, not be, be · **To what, where:** Madu girl, message

<!-- .vabout -->
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, Banbho), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:10:260
# text = The prince was unwilling to leave the Madu girl, but he could not refuse so grave a message, especially as Banbho was not only the wickedest but by far the wisest of his evil companions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	unwilling	unwill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Madu	Madu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	grave	grave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	Banbho	Banbho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wickedest	wicked	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	parataxis	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unwill** | past · progressive | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | the Madu girl |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **refuse** | could | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **grave** *not said to happen* | infinitive | prince *not said here* | a message |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | Banbho |  |  |  |  | especially, wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | Banbho *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of prince's evil companions | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 259](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/10/259/)
- next →: [sentence 261](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/10/261/)
- ↑ back to [Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/10/)