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title: Ganpati turned himself into a cow and wandering towards Gautama’s ri… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Ganpati turned himself into a cow and wandering towards Gautama’s rice field began shamelessly to eat the holy man’s scanty crop. Who acts: Ganpati, cow, rice field. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 17

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Ganpati turned himself into a cow and wandering towards Gautama’s rice field began shamelessly to eat the holy man’s scanty crop.

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**Who acts:** Ganpati, cow, rice field · **What happens:** turn, wonder, begin, eat · **To what, where:** Ganpati, scanty crop

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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 (Ganpati, cow, rice field), 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:pg76982:20:17
# text = Ganpati turned himself into a cow and wandering towards Gautama’s rice field began shamelessly to eat the holy man’s scanty crop.
1	Ganpati	Ganpati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	towards	towards	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	Gautama	Gautama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	shamelessly	shamelessly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	scanty	scanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Ganpati | Ganpati |  |  |  | into a cow *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into cow=Result |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | a cow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Gautama's rice field |  |  |  |  | shamelessly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Gautama's rice field *not said here* | the holy man's scanty crop |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=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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