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title: It is probable that they were brought over on the first introduction… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is probable that they were brought over on the first introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon, c. 241 B.C. Who acts: story. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. the Lion and the Crane., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 24

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It is probable that they were brought over on the first introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon, c. 241 B.C.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** be, bring over, introduce · **To what, where:** verses, first introduction, Buddhism

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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 (story), 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:pg7128:32:24
# text = It is probable that they were brought over on the first introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon, c. 241 B.C.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	c.	c.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	nsubj	_	_
19	241	241	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	_
20	B.C	B.C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | story |  |  |  |  | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring over** | past · passive |  | verses *= verse* |  | the first introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon |  | over *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on introduction=Destination |
| 3 | **introduce** |  |  | Buddhism into Ceylon |  |  |  |  | nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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