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title: But Dalu Rai could restrain himself no longer. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But Dalu Rai could restrain himself no longer. Who acts: 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 294

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But Dalu Rai could restrain himself no longer.

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**Who acts:** Dalu · **What happens:** restrain · **To what, where:** Dalu

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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 (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:pg76982:10:294
# text = But Dalu Rai could restrain himself no longer.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Dalu	Dalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Rai	Rai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	restrain	restrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restrain** | could | Dalu | Dalu |  |  |  | long *property* | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer himself=Eventuality |

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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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