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title: These JATAKAS, as we now have them, are enshrined in a commentary on… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 120

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These JATAKAS, as we now have them, are enshrined in a commentary on the \_gathas\_, or moral verses, written in Ceylon by one of Buddhaghosa's school in the fifth century A.D.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** have, enshrine, write · **To what, where:** JATAKAS, commentary, moral verses, Ceylon

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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 (we), 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:pg7128:29:120
# text = These JATAKAS, as we now have them, are enshrined in a commentary on the _gathas_, or moral verses, written in Ceylon by one of Buddhaghosa's school in the fifth century A.D.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	JATAKAS	jataka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	enshrined	enshrine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	commentary	commentary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	gathas	gatha	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Buddhaghosa	Buddhaghosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | we | JATAKAS *= jataka* |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **enshrine** | present · passive |  | this JATAKAS |  | a commentary on the gathas |  | moral verses *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  | moral verses *not said here* |  | Ceylon |  | by one of Buddhaghosa's school in the fifth century | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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