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title: Here we have collected from the Hindu peasant of to-day a tale which… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here we have collected from the Hindu peasant of to-day a tale which was probably told before Buddha, over two thousand years ago, and certainly included among the Jatakas before the Christian era. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son., with its 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 25

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Here we have collected from the Hindu peasant of to-day a tale which was probably told before Buddha, over two thousand years ago, and certainly included among the Jatakas before the Christian era.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** collect, tell, include · **To what, where:** tale, Jatakas · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg7128:41:25
# text = Here we have collected from the Hindu peasant of to-day a tale which was probably told before Buddha, over two thousand years ago, and certainly included among the Jatakas before the Christian era.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	_
24	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	included	include	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
31	among	among	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | present · perfect | we | a tale |  | here |  | from the Hindu peasant of day; ago *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tale=Theme from peasant=Source |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | a tale |  |  | before Buddha | probably *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **include** | participle | we *not said here* |  |  | the Jatakas | before the Christian era | certainly *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent among jataka=Location |

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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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