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title: There were probably other Buddhist collections of a similar nature t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were probably other Buddhist collections of a similar nature to the Jatakas with a framework. Who acts: other Buddhist collections. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 1

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There were probably other Buddhist collections of a similar nature to the Jatakas with a framework.

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**Who acts:** other Buddhist collections · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other Buddhist collections), 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:pg7128:30:1
# text = There were probably other Buddhist collections of a similar nature to the Jatakas with a framework.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	framework	framework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | other Buddhist collections of a similar nature to the Jatakas with a framework |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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