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title: After trying in vain to establish himself at Sehwan and Bukkur, he s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: After trying in vain to establish himself at Sehwan and Bukkur, he started for Bikanir, only to learn that the Chief meant to hand him over to his enemy. Who acts: Humayun, Chief. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 15

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After trying in vain to establish himself at Sehwan and Bukkur, he started for Bikanir, only to learn that the Chief meant to hand him over to his enemy.

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**Who acts:** Humayun, Chief · **What happens:** try, establish, start, learn, mean, hand over · **To what, where:** vain, Humayun, Sehwan, enemy

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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 (Humayun, Chief), 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:pg76982:13:15
# text = After trying in vain to establish himself at Sehwan and Bukkur, he started for Bikanir, only to learn that the Chief meant to hand him over to his enemy.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sehwan	Sehwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Bukkur	Bukkur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Bikanir	Bikanir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | gerund | Humayun *not said here* |  |  | vain |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **establish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Humayun *not said here* | Humayun |  | Sehwan and Bukkur |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **start** | past | Humayun |  |  |  |  | for Bikanir | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | Humayun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | past | the Chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **hand over** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Chief *not said here* | Humayun |  | Humayun's enemy |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to enemy=Destination |

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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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