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title: Besides this, it came from Ceylon in the Fables of Kybises--_i.e._,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides this, it came from Ceylon in the Fables of Kybises--_i.e._, Kasyapa the Buddha--c. 50 A.D., was adapted into Hebrew, and used for political purposes, by Rabbi Joshua ben Chananyah in a harangue to the Jews c. 120 A.D., begging them to be patient while within the jaws of Rome. Who acts: Sourc
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# Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 20

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Besides this, it came from Ceylon in the Fables of Kybises--\_i.e.\_, Kasyapa the Buddha--c. 50 A.D., was adapted into Hebrew, and used for political purposes, by Rabbi Joshua ben Chananyah in a harangue to the Jews c. 120 A.D., begging them to be patient while within the jaws of Rome.

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**Who acts:** Source · **What happens:** come, adapt, use, beg, be · **To what, where:** Ceylon, Hebrew, c.

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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 (Source), 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:pg7128:32:20
# text = Besides this, it came from Ceylon in the Fables of Kybises--_i.e._, Kasyapa the Buddha--c. 50 A.D., was adapted into Hebrew, and used for political purposes, by Rabbi Joshua ben Chananyah in a harangue to the Jews c. 120 A.D., begging them to be patient while within the jaws of Rome.
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Fables	Fable	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Kybises	kybis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Kasyapa	Kasyapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
23	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	Rabbi	Rabbi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
42	Chananyah	Chananyah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	harangue	harangue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	49	compound	_	_
49	c.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
50	120	120	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	flat	_	_
51	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
55	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	cop	_	_
58	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	_
59	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
60	within	within	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	advcl	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Source |  |  | Ceylon in the Fables of Kybises |  | besides this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ceylon=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **adapt** | past · passive |  |  |  | Hebrew |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for political purposes; by Joshua ben in a harangue to the Jews c. | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | Source *not said here* |  | c. |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Source *not said here* |  |  |  |  | patient *property* | tree rules |

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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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