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title: But just then Gautama detected the moon peeping over the horizon to… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But just then Gautama detected the moon peeping over the horizon to see the fun. Who acts: Gautama, 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 99

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But just then Gautama detected the moon peeping over the horizon to see the fun.

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**Who acts:** Gautama, moon · **What happens:** detect, peep, see · **To what, where:** moon, fun

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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 (Gautama, 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:pg76982:20:99
# text = But just then Gautama detected the moon peeping over the horizon to see the fun.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	Gautama	Gautama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	detected	detect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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