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title: The Emperor Humayun, defeated in battle after battle by the great Af… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor Humayun, defeated in battle after battle by the great Afghan soldier Sher Shah, fled to Sind. Who acts: Emperor Humayun. 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 14

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The Emperor Humayun, defeated in battle after battle by the great Afghan soldier Sher Shah, fled to Sind.

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**Who acts:** Emperor Humayun · **What happens:** defeat, flee, sind · **To what, where:** Emperor Humayun, battle

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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 (Emperor 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:pg76982:13:14
# text = The Emperor Humayun, defeated in battle after battle by the great Afghan soldier Sher Shah, fled to Sind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Humayun	Humayun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Afghan	Afghan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	Sher	Sher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	Sind	sind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defeat** | participle |  | the Emperor Humayun *not said here* |  | battle | after battle | by the great Afghan soldier | tree rules |
| 2 | **flee** | past | the Emperor Humayun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sind** | to-infinitive | the Emperor Humayun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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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