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title: Dalu Rai would at once have gone back to the Madu maiden; but Banbho… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Dalu Rai would at once have gone back to the Madu maiden; but Banbho who “had a crow’s wisdom” prevailed on him to spend the day and the following night on the late king’s funeral ceremonies. Who acts: Dalu. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Ma
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 291

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Dalu Rai would at once have gone back to the Madu maiden; but Banbho who “had a crow’s wisdom” prevailed on him to spend the day and the following night on the late king’s funeral ceremonies.

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**Who acts:** Dalu · **What happens:** go back, prevail, spend, follow · **To what, where:** Banbho, funeral ceremonies

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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 (Dalu), 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:pg76982:10:291
# text = Dalu Rai would at once have gone back to the Madu maiden; but Banbho who “had a crow’s wisdom” prevailed on him to spend the day and the following night on the late king’s funeral ceremonies.
1	Dalu	Dalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Rai	Rai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Madu	Madu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Banbho	Banbho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
24	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | would · perfect | Dalu |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **prevail** | past · perfect · passive |  | Banbho |  |  |  | on Dalu | tree rules |
| 3 | **spend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day | on the late king's funeral ceremonies *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on ceremony=Goal |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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