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title: With their aid Isa Khan felt sure that he could humble Sultan Mahmud. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: With their aid Isa Khan felt sure that he could humble Sultan Mahmud. Who acts: Isa. 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 56

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With their aid Isa Khan felt sure that he could humble Sultan Mahmud.

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**Who acts:** Isa · **What happens:** feel, humble · **To what, where:** Sultan

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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 (Isa), 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:pg76982:13:56
# text = With their aid Isa Khan felt sure that he could humble Sultan Mahmud.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Isa	Isa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	humble	humble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	Mahmud	Mahmud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Isa |  |  |  |  | with slabs's aid; sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **humble** | could | Isa | Sultan |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sultan=Experiencer |

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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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