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title: Sultan Mahmud of Bukkur yielded to the great Emperor his sovereignty… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Sultan Mahmud of Bukkur yielded to the great Emperor his sovereignty without a blow. Who acts: Sultan Mahmud. 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 78

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Sultan Mahmud of Bukkur yielded to the great Emperor his sovereignty without a blow.

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**Who acts:** Sultan Mahmud · **What happens:** yield · **To what, where:** sovereignty, great Emperor

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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 (Sultan Mahmud), 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:pg76982:13:78
# text = Sultan Mahmud of Bukkur yielded to the great Emperor his sovereignty without a blow.
1	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Mahmud	Mahmud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Bukkur	Bukkur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	yielded	yield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yield** | past | Sultan Mahmud of Bukkur | Mahmud's sovereignty | the great Emperor |  |  | without a blow | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Theme to emperor=Goal |

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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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