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title: _--It occurs also in the Bidpai literature, in nearly all its multit… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--It occurs also in the Bidpai literature, in nearly all its multitudinous offshoots. Who acts: x. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise., sentence 6

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\_--It occurs also in the Bidpai literature, in nearly all its multitudinous offshoots.

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**Who acts:** x · **What happens:** occur · **To what, where:** Bidpai literature

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (x), 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:pg7128:44:6
# text = _--It occurs also in the Bidpai literature, in nearly all its multitudinous offshoots.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	multitudinous	multitudinous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	offshoots	offshoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | x |  |  | the Bidpai literature and x's multitudinous offshoots |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in literature=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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