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# XIII. the Talkative Tortoise.

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XIII. the Talkative Tortoise. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 12 sentences and 172 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/2/) — \_--The \_Kacchapa Jataka\_, Fausböll, No. 215; also in his \_Five Jatakas\_, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/3/) — 16, 41, tr.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/4/) — Rhys-Davids, pp. viii-x.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/5/) — \_Parallels.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/6/) — \_--It occurs also in the Bidpai literature, in nearly all its multitudinous offshoots.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/7/) — See Benfey, \_Einleitung\_, §84; also my \_Bidpai\_, E, 4 \_a\_; and North's text, pp.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/8/) — 170-5, where it is the taunts of the other birds that cause the catastrophe: "O here is a brave sight, looke, here is a goodly ieast, what bugge haue we here," said some. "
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/9/) — See, see, she hangeth by the throte, and therefor she speaketh not," saide others; "and the beast flieth not like a beast;" so she opened her mouth and "pashte hir all to pieces."
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/10/) — \_Remarks.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/11/) — \_--I have reproduced in my edition the original illustration of the first English Bidpai, itself derived from the Italian block.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/44/12/) — A replica of it here may serve to show that it could be used equally well to illustrate the Pali original as its English great-great-great-great-great-great grand-child.

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