--- title: Taking the life of living creatures causes birth, as an animal, in t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Taking the life of living creatures causes birth, as an animal, in the world of Petas, or in the body of an Asura, or, if one is reborn as a man, it makes his life short." Who acts: Taking, one, birth. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taking, one, birth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:26:144 # text = Taking the life of living creatures causes birth, as an animal, in the world of Petas, or in the body of an Asura, or, if one is reborn as a man, it makes his life short." 1 Taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Petas Petas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Asura Asura PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 reborn reborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 advcl _ _ 34 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | gerund | | the life of living creatures | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 2 | **cause** | present | Taking | birth | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition birth=Patient | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one | | | | | as a man; reborn *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | birth | man's life | | | | short *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material life=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/143/) - next →: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/145/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/)