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title: In making Buddha the centre figure of the popular literature of Indi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In making Buddha the centre figure of the popular literature of India, his followers also invented the Frame as a method of literary art. Who acts: followers. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 113

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In making Buddha the centre figure of the popular literature of India, his followers also invented the Frame as a method of literary art.

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**Who acts:** followers · **What happens:** make, invent, figure · **To what, where:** centre figure, Buddha, Frame, popular literature

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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: who acts (followers), 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:pg7128:29:113
# text = In making Buddha the centre figure of the popular literature of India, his followers also invented the Frame as a method of literary art.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
3	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | Buddha's followers *not said here* | the centre figure of the popular literature of India | Buddha |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset buddha=Beneficiary figure=Product |
| 2 | **invent** | past | Buddha's followers | the Frame |  |  |  | as a method of literary art | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent frame=Result as method=Attribute |
| 3 | **figure** |  |  | the popular literature of India |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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