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title: Another popular collection was that associated with the life of St.… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Another popular collection was that associated with the life of St. Buddha, who has been canonised as St. Josaphat: BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT tells of his conversion and much else besides, including the tale of the Three Caskets, used by Shakespeare in the _Merchant of Venice_. Who acts: BARLAAM, Josapha
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 13

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Another popular collection was that associated with the life of St. Buddha, who has been canonised as St. Josaphat: BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT tells of his conversion and much else besides, including the tale of the Three Caskets, used by Shakespeare in the \_Merchant of Venice\_.

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**Who acts:** BARLAAM, Josaphat, Three Caskets · **What happens:** associate, canonis, tell, use, convert · **To what, where:** popular collection, Buddha, Three Caskets, Merchant · **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 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BARLAAM, Josaphat, Three Caskets), 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:pg7128:30:13
# text = Another popular collection was that associated with the life of St. Buddha, who has been canonised as St. Josaphat: BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT tells of his conversion and much else besides, including the tale of the Three Caskets, used by Shakespeare in the _Merchant of Venice_.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	canonised	canonis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Josaphat	Josaphat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	BARLAAM	BARLAAM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	JOSAPHAT	JOSAPHAT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	conversion	conversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	else	else	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	besides	besides	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	including	including	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Caskets	casket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	Merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **associate** | past · passive |  | another popular collection |  |  |  | with the life of Buddha  St. | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with life=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **canonis** | present · perfect · passive |  | Buddha  St. |  |  |  | as Josaphat  St. | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | BARLAAM and JOSAPHAT |  |  |  |  | of Josaphat's conversion; besides *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **use** | participle |  | the Three Caskets *not said here* |  | the Merchant of Venice |  | by Shakespeare | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **convert** |  | Josaphat |  |  |  |  |  | nom conversion «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **tell** |  | the Three Caskets |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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