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title: Shah Hussein Arghun succeeded his father Shahbeg and was the ruler o… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Shah Hussein Arghun succeeded his father Shahbeg and was the ruler of Sind when Humayun fled to it and Akbar was born. Who acts: Shah, 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 46

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Shah Hussein Arghun succeeded his father Shahbeg and was the ruler of Sind when Humayun fled to it and Akbar was born.

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**Who acts:** Shah, Humayun · **What happens:** succeed, be, flee, bear · **To what, where:** father, ruler, Akbar

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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 (Shah, 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:pg76982:13:46
# text = Shah Hussein Arghun succeeded his father Shahbeg and was the ruler of Sind when Humayun fled to it and Akbar was born.
1	Shah	Shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Hussein	Hussein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Arghun	Arghun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Shahbeg	Shahbeg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	Humayun	Humayun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	Akbar	Akbar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | Shah | Shah's father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Shah *not said here* | the ruler |  |  |  | of Sind | tree rules |
| 3 | **flee** | past | Humayun |  |  | ruler |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Akbar |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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