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title: Yet brave as he was, he had at last to kiss the stirrup of the world… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet brave as he was, he had at last to kiss the stirrup of the world conqueror, was graciously received and confirmed as imperial governor of Tatta. Who acts: Beg. 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 c
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 82

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Yet brave as he was, he had at last to kiss the stirrup of the world conqueror, was graciously received and confirmed as imperial governor of Tatta.

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**Who acts:** Beg · **What happens:** be, have, kiss, receive, confirm · **To what, where:** stirrup

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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 (Beg), 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:pg76982:13:82
# text = Yet brave as he was, he had at last to kiss the stirrup of the world conqueror, was graciously received and confirmed as imperial governor of Tatta.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stirrup	stirrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Tatta	Tatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Beg |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Beg |  |  |  |  | last *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kiss** | to-infinitive | Beg *not said here* | the stirrup of the world conqueror |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stirrup=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **receive** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | graciously *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **confirm** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as imperial governor of Tatta | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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