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title: We can trace them in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic MSS., and a few are e… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We can trace them in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic MSS., and a few are extant on Buddhist Stupas. Who acts: We, few. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted., sentence 12

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We can trace them in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic MSS., and a few are extant on Buddhist Stupas.

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**Who acts:** We, few · **What happens:** trace, be · **To what, where:** illustrations, Latin, Buddhist Stupas

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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:pg7128:38:12
# text = We can trace them in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic MSS., and a few are extant on Buddhist Stupas.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	trace	trace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	MSS	MSS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	extant	extant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Stupas	stupa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | can | We | illustrations *= illustration* |  | Latin |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in latin=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | a few |  |  | Buddhist Stupas |  | extant *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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