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title: Then Baber called his nobles together, and charged them to serve Hum… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Baber called his nobles together, and charged them to serve Humayun faithfully, for he himself would rule no more. Who acts: Baber, Humayun. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 68

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Then Baber called his nobles together, and charged them to serve Humayun faithfully, for he himself would rule no more.

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**Who acts:** Baber, Humayun · **What happens:** call, charge, serve, rule · **To what, where:** nobles, Humayun, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baber, Humayun), 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:pg69647:3:68
# text = Then Baber called his nobles together, and charged them to serve Humayun faithfully, for he himself would rule no more.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Baber	Baber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	Humayun	Humayun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	no	no	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Baber | Humayun's nobles |  |  | then | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent noble=Recipient |
| 2 | **charge** | past | Baber *not said here* | nobles *= noble* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=Theme |
| 3 | **serve** | to-infinitive | Baber *not said here* | Humayun |  |  |  | faithfully *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent humayun=Attribute |
| 4 | **rule** | would | Humayun | more |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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:** «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (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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