--- title: The idea of connecting a number of disconnected stories familiar to… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The idea of connecting a number of disconnected stories familiar to us from _The Arabian Nights_, Boccaccio's _Decamerone_, Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_, or even _Pickwick_, is directly traceable to the plan of making Buddha the central figure of India folk-literature. 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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 (idea, Pickwick, plan, Chaucer), 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:pg7128:29:114 # text = The idea of connecting a number of disconnected stories familiar to us from _The Arabian Nights_, Boccaccio's _Decamerone_, Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_, or even _Pickwick_, is directly traceable to the plan of making Buddha the central figure of India folk-literature. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 connecting connect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 disconnected disconnect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 familiar familiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Arabian Arabian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Nights Night PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 Boccaccio Boccaccio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Decamerone Decamerone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 24 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 Chaucer Chaucer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Canterbury canterbury NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Pickwick Pickwick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 directly directly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 traceable traceable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 of of SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 46 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 acl _ _ 47 Buddha Buddha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 52 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 53 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 54 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 literature literature NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **connect** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | a number of disconnected stories | | | from the Arabian Nights | familiar *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 2 | **disconnect** | participle | | | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | Pickwick | | | | | to the plan; directly, traceable *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | gerund | the plan *not said here* | the central figure of India folk literature | Buddha | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset buddha=Beneficiary figure=Product | | 5 | **tell** | | Chaucer | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **figure** | | | India folk literature | | | | | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/115/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/)