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title: When they reached Brahmanabad, they found that Dalu Rai had recently… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached Brahmanabad, they found that Dalu Rai had recently issued a law that every young married woman should be brought to his couch for at least one night. Who acts: relatives, young. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 179

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When they reached Brahmanabad, they found that Dalu Rai had recently issued a law that every young married woman should be brought to his couch for at least one night.

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**Who acts:** relatives, young · **What happens:** reach, find, issue, marry, bring · **To what, where:** Brahmanabad, Dalu, woman, young · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relatives, young), 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:pg76982:10:179
# text = When they reached Brahmanabad, they found that Dalu Rai had recently issued a law that every young married woman should be brought to his couch for at least one night.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	Brahmanabad	Brahmanabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	Dalu	Dalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	Rai	Rai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	nmod	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | relatives *= relative* | Brahmanabad |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent brahmanabad=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | relatives *= relative* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **issue** | past · perfect · passive |  | Dalu |  |  |  | a law *obj*; recently *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal law=Theme |
| 4 | **marry** | participle | every young *not said here* | woman |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient |
| 5 | **bring** | should · passive |  | every young |  |  | night | to Dalu's couch; a law *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination that=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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