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title: In the meantime, however, Isa Khan had in several actions instilled… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime, however, Isa Khan had in several actions instilled into Sultan Mahmud Khan a sense of his inferiority and had forced him to sue for peace. Who acts: Isa, Sultan. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 60

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In the meantime, however, Isa Khan had in several actions instilled into Sultan Mahmud Khan a sense of his inferiority and had forced him to sue for peace.

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**Who acts:** Isa, Sultan · **What happens:** have, instil, force, sue, sense · **To what, where:** meantime, sense, Isa, inferiority

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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, Sultan), 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:pg76982:13:60
# text = In the meantime, however, Isa Khan had in several actions instilled into Sultan Mahmud Khan a sense of his inferiority and had forced him to sue for peace.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Isa	Isa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	instilled	instil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	_
16	Mahmud	Mahmud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	inferiority	inferiority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	sue	sue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Isa |  |  | the meantime |  | in several actions; however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **instil** | participle · passive | Sultan | a sense of Isa's inferiority |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **force** | past · perfect | Isa *not said here* | Isa |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sue** | to-infinitive | Isa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for peace | tree rules |
| 5 | **sense** |  |  | Isa's inferiority |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=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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