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title: The similarity of the Jataka form with that familiar to us, and deri… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The similarity of the Jataka form with that familiar to us, and derived by us in the last resort from Phædrus, is so striking that few will deny some historical relation between them. Who acts: similarity, few. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. the Lion and the Crane., with its
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# Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 16

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The similarity of the Jataka form with that familiar to us, and derived by us in the last resort from Phædrus, is so striking that few will deny some historical relation between them.

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**Who acts:** similarity, few · **What happens:** derive, strike, deny · **To what, where:** last resort, historical relation

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. the Lion and the Crane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (similarity, few), 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:pg7128:32:16
# text = The similarity of the Jataka form with that familiar to us, and derived by us in the last resort from Phædrus, is so striking that few will deny some historical relation between them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	similarity	similarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
9	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	resort	resort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	deny	deny	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	between	between	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | participle | the similarity of the Jataka form with familiar *not said here* |  |  | the last resort from Phædrus |  | by us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by we=Location |
| 2 | **strike** | present · progressive | the similarity of the Jataka form with familiar |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **deny** | future | few | some historical relation |  |  |  | between results *= result* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent relation=Eventuality |

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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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