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title: Not for him the moonlight on the great desert on our Eastern frontie… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Not for him the moonlight on the great desert on our Eastern frontier; or the sunrise from the Indus delta, throwing its golden shafts across Karachi’s beautiful lagoon to the rugged sky-line of the Hub hills. Who acts: sunrise. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 15

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Not for him the moonlight on the great desert on our Eastern frontier; or the sunrise from the Indus delta, throwing its golden shafts across Karachi’s beautiful lagoon to the rugged sky-line of the Hub hills.

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**Who acts:** sunrise · **What happens:** throw · **To what, where:** golden shafts, beautiful lagoon, moonlight

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunrise), 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:pg76982:2:15
# text = Not for him the moonlight on the great desert on our Eastern frontier; or the sunrise from the Indus delta, throwing its golden shafts across Karachi’s beautiful lagoon to the rugged sky-line of the Hub hills.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	frontier	frontier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	delta	Delta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	shafts	shaft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	across	across	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	Karachi	Karachi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Hub	Hub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund | the sunrise from the Indus delta *not said here* | delta's golden shafts |  | Karachi's beautiful lagoon |  | to the rugged sky line of the Hub hills | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme to line=Destination |

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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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