Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 99
But just then Gautama detected the moon peeping over the horizon to see the fun.
Who acts: Gautama, moon · What happens: detect, peep, see · To what, where: moon, fun
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gautama, moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 detected | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 detected | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 detected | advmod |
| 4 | Gautama | Gautama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 detected | nsubj |
| 5 | detected | detect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 detected | obj |
| 8 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 moon | acl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 horizon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horizon | det |
| 11 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peeping | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 peeping | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fun | det |
| 15 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 detected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detect | past | Gautama | the moon | then | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | peep | gerund | the moon not said here | over the horizon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over horizon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the moon not said here | the fun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fun=Stimulus |
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.
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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