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title: It was to proclaim the prince as king in Brahmanabad and then to gal… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: It was to proclaim the prince as king in Brahmanabad and then to gallop with every available man to Depur where the ministers had assembled to carry out the late king’s wishes. Who acts: plan, late king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdu
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 271

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It was to proclaim the prince as king in Brahmanabad and then to gallop with every available man to Depur where the ministers had assembled to carry out the late king’s wishes.

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**Who acts:** plan, late king · **What happens:** be, gallop, assemble, carry out, wish · **To what, where:** Depur, wishes

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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 (plan, late king), 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:pg76982:10:271
# text = It was to proclaim the prince as king in Brahmanabad and then to gallop with every available man to Depur where the ministers had assembled to carry out the late king’s wishes.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Brahmanabad	Brahmanabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	gallop	gallop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	available	available	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	Depur	Depur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | plan |  |  |  |  | as king in Brahmanabad; the prince *obj*; proclaim *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gallop** | to-infinitive | plan *not said here* |  |  |  | then | with every available man | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **assemble** | past · perfect · passive |  | Depur |  |  |  | the ministers *nsubj:pass* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **carry out** | to-infinitive |  | the late king's wishes |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality |
| 5 | **wish** |  | the late king |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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