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title: See Benfey, _Einleitung_, §84; also my _Bidpai_, E, 4 _a_; and North… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: See Benfey, _Einleitung_, §84; also my _Bidpai_, E, 4 _a_; and North's text, pp. Who acts: you, Bidpai. 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 7

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See Benfey, \_Einleitung\_, §84; also my \_Bidpai\_, E, 4 \_a\_; and North's text, pp.

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**Who acts:** you, Bidpai · **What happens:** see, \_ · **To what, where:** Benfey

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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 (you, Bidpai), 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:pg7128:44:7
# text = See Benfey, _Einleitung_, §84; also my _Bidpai_, E, 4 _a_; and North's text, pp.
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Einleitung	Einleitung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	§	§	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	84	84	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | Benfey and Einleitung |  |  |  | North's text and pp *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer benfey=Stimulus |
| 2 | **\_** |  | Bidpai |  |  |  |  |  | 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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