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title: The moon rose two hours earlier than he (for the moon is masculine i… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon rose two hours earlier than he (for the moon is masculine in India) should have done. Who acts: moon. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 95

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The moon rose two hours earlier than he (for the moon is masculine in India) should have done.

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**Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** rise, be, do · **To what, where:** India

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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 (moon), 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:pg76982:20:95
# text = The moon rose two hours earlier than he (for the moon is masculine in India) should have done.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	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 | **rise** | past | the moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | moon |  |  | India |  | for the moon; masculine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | should · perfect | the moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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