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title: Dalu Rai looked towards the horizon and saw a huge mass of sand like… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Dalu Rai looked towards the horizon and saw a huge mass of sand like a tidal wave advancing on Brahmanabad. Who acts: Dalu, tidal wave. 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 305

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Dalu Rai looked towards the horizon and saw a huge mass of sand like a tidal wave advancing on Brahmanabad.

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**Who acts:** Dalu, tidal wave · **What happens:** look, see, advance · **To what, where:** huge mass, Brahmanabad

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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, tidal wave), 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:pg76982:10:305
# text = Dalu Rai looked towards the horizon and saw a huge mass of sand like a tidal wave advancing on Brahmanabad.
1	Dalu	Dalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Rai	Rai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	tidal	tidal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Brahmanabad	Brahmanabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Dalu |  |  |  |  | towards the horizon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards horizon=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Dalu *not said here* | a huge mass of sand like a tidal wave |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus |
| 3 | **advance** | gerund | a tidal wave *not said here* |  |  | Brahmanabad |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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