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title: All that was told of the sages of the past could be interpreted of t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All that was told of the sages of the past could be interpreted of the Buddha by representing them as pre-incarnations of him. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 110

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All that was told of the sages of the past could be interpreted of the Buddha by representing them as pre-incarnations of him.

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**What happens:** tell, interpret, represent · **To what, where:** that, sages · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:29:110
# text = All that was told of the sages of the past could be interpreted of the Buddha by representing them as pre-incarnations of him.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sages	sage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	interpreted	interpret	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pre-incarnations	pre-incarnation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  | of the sages of the past | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **interpret** | could · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the Buddha | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING» |
| 3 | **represent** | gerund |  | sages *= sage* |  |  |  | as pre-incarnations of India | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as pre-incarnation=Attribute |

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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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