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title: When the Hindu reaction against Buddhism came, the Brahmins adapted… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Hindu reaction against Buddhism came, the Brahmins adapted these, with the omission of Buddha as the central figure. Who acts: Hindu reaction, Brahmins. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 2

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When the Hindu reaction against Buddhism came, the Brahmins adapted these, with the omission of Buddha as the central figure.

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**Who acts:** Hindu reaction, Brahmins · **What happens:** come, adapt, omit · **To what, where:** these, Buddha

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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 (Hindu reaction, Brahmins), 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:pg7128:30:2
# text = When the Hindu reaction against Buddhism came, the Brahmins adapted these, with the omission of Buddha as the central figure.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reaction	reaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Brahmins	brahmin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	omission	omission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Hindu reaction against Buddhism |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **adapt** | past | the Brahmins | these |  |  |  | with the omission of Buddha as the central figure | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
| 3 | **omit** |  |  | Buddha |  |  |  | as the central figure | nom omission «act transitive»: of=patient as=obl |

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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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