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title: Babur, a descendant of Timur and of Genghis Khan, founded the Mughal… — The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: Babur, a descendant of Timur and of Genghis Khan, founded the Mughal Empire by defeating the Delhi Sultan at Panipat in 1526. Who acts: Babur. A sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia, sentence 7

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Babur, a descendant of Timur and of Genghis Khan, founded the Mughal Empire by defeating the Delhi Sultan at Panipat in 1526.

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**Who acts:** Babur · **What happens:** found, defeat · **To what, where:** Mughal Empire, Delhi Sultan, Panipat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson:7
# text = Babur, a descendant of Timur and of Genghis Khan, founded the Mughal Empire by defeating the Delhi Sultan at Panipat in 1526.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Babur	Babur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	descendant	descendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Timur	Timur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Genghis	Genghis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Mughal	mughal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	defeating	defeat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Panipat	Panipat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1526	1526	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | Babur | the Mughal Empire |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Patient |
| 2 | **defeat** | gerund | Babur *not said here* | the Delhi Sultan |  | Panipat |  | in 1526 | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson:7`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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