--- title: These Jatakas contain a large quantity of genuine early Indian folk-… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: These Jatakas contain a large quantity of genuine early Indian folk-tales, and form the earliest collection of folk-tales in the world, a sort of Indian Grimm, collected more than two thousand years before the good German brothers went on their quest among the folk with such delightful results. 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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 (Jatakas, good German brothers, tales), 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:pg7128:3:25 # text = These Jatakas contain a large quantity of genuine early Indian folk-tales, and form the earliest collection of folk-tales in the world, a sort of Indian Grimm, collected more than two thousand years before the good German brothers went on their quest among the folk with such delightful results. 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 Jatakas jataka NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 quantity quantity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 genuine genuine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 9 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 10 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 earliest early ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 Grimm Grimm PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 collected collect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 38 advmod _ _ 36 than than ADP IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 compound _ _ 38 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 before before SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 quest quest NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 among among ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 52 with with ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 54 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contain** | present | this Jatakas | a large quantity of genuine early Indian folk tales | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot quantity=Theme | | 2 | **form** | present | | the earliest collection of folk tales in the world a sort of Indian Grimm | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location collection=Theme | | 3 | **collect** | past | | | | | year | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **go** | past | the good German brothers | | | tales's quest | | among the folk with such delightful results | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on quest=Location | | 5 | **sort** | | | Indian Grimm | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **quest** | | tales *= tale* | | | | | | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/26/) - ↑ back to [Joseph Jacobs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/)