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title: Isa Khan sent word from Bukkur that he no longer needed Portuguese h… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Isa Khan sent word from Bukkur that he no longer needed Portuguese help. 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 61

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Isa Khan sent word from Bukkur that he no longer needed Portuguese help.

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**Who acts:** Isa · **What happens:** send, need · **To what, where:** word, Bukkur, Portuguese help

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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:pg76982:13:61
# text = Isa Khan sent word from Bukkur that he no longer needed Portuguese help.
1	Isa	Isa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Bukkur	Bukkur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	no	no	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Isa | word |  | Bukkur |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent word=Theme from bukkur=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **need** | past | Isa | Portuguese help |  |  |  | long *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |

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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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