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title: Rhys-Davids informs me that these names are more akin to Pali than t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Rhys-Davids informs me that these names are more akin to Pali than to Sanskrit, which makes it still more probable that the whole literature is ultimately to be derived from a Buddhist source. Who acts: Rhys, names, Sanskrit. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. the Broken Pot., w
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# Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 21

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Rhys-Davids informs me that these names are more akin to Pali than to Sanskrit, which makes it still more probable that the whole literature is ultimately to be derived from a Buddhist source.

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**Who acts:** Rhys, names, Sanskrit · **What happens:** inform, be, make · **To what, where:** me, Pali, version, whole literature, Buddhist source

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. the Broken Pot.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhys, names, Sanskrit), 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:pg7128:36:21
# text = Rhys-Davids informs me that these names are more akin to Pali than to Sanskrit, which makes it still more probable that the whole literature is ultimately to be derived from a Buddhist source.
1	Rhys	Rhys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Davids	david	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	flat	_	_
4	informs	inform	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	akin	akin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Pali	Pali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Sanskrit	Sanskrit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | present | Rhys |  | me |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | this names |  | Pali |  |  | than Sanskrit; akin *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | Sanskrit | version |  |  |  | probable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **is** | present · passive |  | the whole literature |  | a Buddhist source |  | derive, ultimately *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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