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title: Only a few years before they had helped the King of Guzarat to drive… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Only a few years before they had helped the King of Guzarat to drive out Humayun and in return had received Bassein and the whole Province of the north including Salsette Island. Who acts: slabs. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tr
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 55

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Only a few years before they had helped the King of Guzarat to drive out Humayun and in return had received Bassein and the whole Province of the north including Salsette Island.

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**Who acts:** slabs · **What happens:** help, drive out, receive, include · **To what, where:** King, Humayun, Bassein, return

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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 (slabs), 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:pg76982:13:55
# text = Only a few years before they had helped the King of Guzarat to drive out Humayun and in return had received Bassein and the whole Province of the north including Salsette Island.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Guzarat	Guzarat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	Humayun	Humayun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
22	Bassein	Bassein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	case	_	_
31	Salsette	Salsette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past · perfect | slabs *= slab* |  | the King of Guzarat |  | year |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **drive out** | to-infinitive | slabs *= slab* *not said here* | Humayun |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent humayun=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | past · perfect | slabs *= slab* *not said here* | Bassein and the whole Province of the north include Salsette Island |  | return |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bassein=Theme in return=Location |
| 4 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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