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title: Curiously enough, the earliest instance of this in Buddhist literatu… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Curiously enough, the earliest instance of this in Buddhist literature was intended to be a Decameron, ten tales of Buddha's previous births, told of each of the ten Perfections. Who acts: previous births. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, wi
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 115

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Curiously enough, the earliest instance of this in Buddhist literature was intended to be a Decameron, ten tales of Buddha's previous births, told of each of the ten Perfections.

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**Who acts:** previous births · **What happens:** intend, be, tell, instance · **To what, where:** earliest instance, Buddhist literature, Decameron, previous births, this · **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: who acts (previous births), 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:pg7128:29:115
# text = Curiously enough, the earliest instance of this in Buddhist literature was intended to be a Decameron, ten tales of Buddha's previous births, told of each of the ten Perfections.
1	Curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Decameron	Decameron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	births	birth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	Perfections	perfection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** | past · passive |  | the earliest instance of this |  | Buddhist literature |  | curiously *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a Decameron and ten tales of Buddha's previous births |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | Buddha's previous births *not said here* |  |  |  | of each | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **instance** |  |  | this |  |  |  |  | nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **tell** |  | Buddha's previous births |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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