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title: _--Here we have collected in modern India what one cannot help think… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Here we have collected in modern India what one cannot help thinking is the Indian original of a fable of Avian. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender., sentence 11

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\_--Here we have collected in modern India what one cannot help thinking is the Indian original of a fable of Avian.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** collect, not help, think, be · **To what, where:** modern India, Indian original

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender.. 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:pg7128:52:11
# text = _--Here we have collected in modern India what one cannot help thinking is the Indian original of a fable of Avian.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
11	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Avian	avian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | present · perfect | we |  |  | modern India; here |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **help** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the Indian original |  |  |  | of a fable of Avian | 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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