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title: But one day when Chota Amrani was absent from the city, Dalu Rai for… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But one day when Chota Amrani was absent from the city, Dalu Rai forced his way into his brother’s house and tried to seduce Fatima. Who acts: Chota, Dalu. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 182

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But one day when Chota Amrani was absent from the city, Dalu Rai forced his way into his brother’s house and tried to seduce Fatima.

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**Who acts:** Chota, Dalu · **What happens:** be, force, try, seduce · **To what, where:** city, way, house, Fatima

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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 (Chota, Dalu), 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:pg76982:10:182
# text = But one day when Chota Amrani was absent from the city, Dalu Rai forced his way into his brother’s house and tried to seduce Fatima.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	Chota	Chota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Amrani	Amrani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	Dalu	Dalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Rai	Rai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	seduce	seduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Chota |  |  | the city |  | absent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **force** | past | Dalu | Chota's way |  | Chota's brother's house | day |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
| 3 | **try** | past | Dalu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **seduce** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dalu *not said here* | Fatima |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fatima=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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