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title: He reported the facts to Aurangzeb and obtained that emperor’s leave… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He reported the facts to Aurangzeb and obtained that emperor’s leave to shorten Shahlal Mahomed’s stature by a head. Who acts: Governor, emperor ’s. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 124

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He reported the facts to Aurangzeb and obtained that emperor’s leave to shorten Shahlal Mahomed’s stature by a head.

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**Who acts:** Governor, emperor ’s · **What happens:** report, obtain, leave, shorten · **To what, where:** facts, Aurangzeb, stature

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Governor, emperor ’s), 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:pg76982:13:124
# text = He reported the facts to Aurangzeb and obtained that emperor’s leave to shorten Shahlal Mahomed’s stature by a head.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Aurangzeb	Aurangzeb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	shorten	shorten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	Shahlal	Shahlal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
18	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past | Governor | the facts | Aurangzeb |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fact=Topic to aurangzeb=Recipient |
| 2 | **obtain** | past | Governor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **leave** | present | emperor ’s |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shorten** | to-infinitive | emperor ’s *not said here* | Shahlal's stature |  |  |  | by a head | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stature=Patient |

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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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