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title: While Banbho was thus rousing his master to action, the prime-minist… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: While Banbho was thus rousing his master to action, the prime-minister and the commander-in-chief and the principal nobles of Brahmanabad were seated together in one of the council rooms of Depur. Who acts: Banbho. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 275

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While Banbho was thus rousing his master to action, the prime-minister and the commander-in-chief and the principal nobles of Brahmanabad were seated together in one of the council rooms of Depur.

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**Who acts:** Banbho · **What happens:** rouse, seat · **To what, where:** master, prime minister

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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 (Banbho), 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:pg76982:10:275
# text = While Banbho was thus rousing his master to action, the prime-minister and the commander-in-chief and the principal nobles of Brahmanabad were seated together in one of the council rooms of Depur.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Banbho	Banbho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rousing	rouse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Brahmanabad	Brahmanabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Depur	Depur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | past · progressive | Banbho | Banbho's master |  |  |  | to action; thus *property* | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient |
| 2 | **seat** | past · passive |  | the prime minister and the chief  commander and the principal nobles of Brahmanabad |  |  |  | in one of the council rooms of Depur; together *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in one=Location |

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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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