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title: Long ago the Bodisat was born to a forest life as the Genius of a tr… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Long ago the Bodisat was born to a forest life as the Genius of a tree standing near a certain lotus pond. Who acts: tree. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 72

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Long ago the Bodisat was born to a forest life as the Genius of a tree standing near a certain lotus pond.

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** bear, stand · **To what, where:** Bodisat, certain lotus pond

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:11:72
# text = Long ago the Bodisat was born to a forest life as the Genius of a tree standing near a certain lotus pond.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Bodisat	Bodisat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Genius	Genius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the Bodisat |  |  |  | to a forest life as the Genius of a tree; ago *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | a tree *not said here* |  |  | a certain lotus pond |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near pond=Location |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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