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title: First, it came by oral tradition to Egypt, as one of the Libyan Fabl… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: First, it came by oral tradition to Egypt, as one of the Libyan Fables which the ancients themselves distinguished from the Æsopic Fables. Who acts: Fable, ancients. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. the Lion and the Crane., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 18

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First, it came by oral tradition to Egypt, as one of the Libyan Fables which the ancients themselves distinguished from the Æsopic Fables.

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**Who acts:** Fable, ancients · **What happens:** come, distinguish · **To what, where:** Libyan Fables

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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 (Fable, ancients), 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:pg7128:32:18
# text = First, it came by oral tradition to Egypt, as one of the Libyan Fables which the ancients themselves distinguished from the Æsopic Fables.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Libyan	Libyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Fables	Fable	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ancients	ancient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Æsopic	Æsopic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Fables	Fable	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Fable |  |  |  |  | by oral tradition to Egypt; first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tradition=Location |
| 2 | **distinguish** | past | the ancients  ancients | the Libyan Fables |  |  |  | from the Æsopic Fables | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme from fable=Co-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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