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title: The moralising tone of the Jatakas must be conspicuous to all readin… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The moralising tone of the Jatakas must be conspicuous to all reading them. Who acts: moralising tone. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. a Lesson For Kings., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XVII. a Lesson For Kings., sentence 6

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The moralising tone of the Jatakas must be conspicuous to all reading them.

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**Who acts:** moralising tone · **What happens:** moralise, be, read, intonate · **To what, where:** Jatakas

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. a Lesson For Kings.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moralising tone), 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:pg7128:48:6
# text = The moralising tone of the Jatakas must be conspicuous to all reading them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	moralising	moralise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	conspicuous	conspicuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	conj	_	_
12	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **moralise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | must | the moralising tone of the Jatakas |  |  |  |  | conspicuous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | gerund |  | Jatakas *= jataka* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 4 | **intonate** |  |  | the Jatakas |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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