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title: Some of these had been translated by Mr. Rhys-Davids (_Buddhist Birt… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of these had been translated by Mr. Rhys-Davids (_Buddhist Birth Stories, I._, Trübner's Oriental Library, 1880), Prof. Who acts: Rhys Davids. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 131

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Some of these had been translated by Mr. Rhys-Davids (\_Buddhist Birth Stories, I.\_, Trübner's Oriental Library, 1880), Prof.

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**Who acts:** Rhys Davids · **What happens:** translate · **To what, where:** Some

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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 (Rhys Davids), 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:pg7128:29:131
# text = Some of these had been translated by Mr. Rhys-Davids (_Buddhist Birth Stories, I._, Trübner's Oriental Library, 1880), Prof.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Rhys	Rhys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Davids	david	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
15	Birth	Birth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Stories	Story	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	Trübner	Trübner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	Oriental	Oriental	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Library	Library	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	1880	1880	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Prof	Prof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | past · perfect · passive | Rhys Davids | Some |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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