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title: But other collections were made, and at last a corpus of the JATAKAS… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But other collections were made, and at last a corpus of the JATAKAS, or Birth-Tales of the Buddha, was carried over to Ceylon, possibly as early as the first introduction of Buddhism, 241 B.C. Who acts: Buddha. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 117

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But other collections were made, and at last a corpus of the JATAKAS, or Birth-Tales of the Buddha, was carried over to Ceylon, possibly as early as the first introduction of Buddhism, 241 B.C.

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**Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** make, carry over, tell, introduce · **To what, where:** other collections, Ceylon, last corpus, Buddhism · **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 (Buddha), 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:pg7128:29:117
# text = But other collections were made, and at last a corpus of the JATAKAS, or Birth-Tales of the Buddha, was carried over to Ceylon, possibly as early as the first introduction of Buddhism, 241 B.C.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	corpus	corpus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	JATAKAS	jataka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	Birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	241	241	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	appos	_	_
41	B.C	B.C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | other collections |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **carry over** | past · passive |  |  | Ceylon | a last corpus of the JATAKAS  Birth Tales of the Buddha |  | early *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to ceylon=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** |  | the Buddha |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **introduce** |  |  | Buddhism |  |  |  |  | nom introduction «act 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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