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title: This makes it likely that we shall find an earlier Indian original o… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This makes it likely that we shall find an earlier Indian original of the fable of the Avaricious and Envious, perhaps among the Jatakas still untranslated. Who acts: This, we. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender., with its dependency tree and th
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender., sentence 13

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This makes it likely that we shall find an earlier Indian original of the fable of the Avaricious and Envious, perhaps among the Jatakas still untranslated.

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**Who acts:** This, we · **What happens:** make, find, untranslat · **To what, where:** fable, earlier Indian original, Jatakas

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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 (This, 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:pg7128:52:13
# text = This makes it likely that we shall find an earlier Indian original of the fable of the Avaricious and Envious, perhaps among the Jatakas still untranslated.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Avaricious	Avaricious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	untranslated	untranslat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | This | fable |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 2 | **find** | shall | we | a earlier Indian original of the fable of the Avaricious |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent original=Topic |
| 3 | **untranslat** | participle |  | the Jatakas *not said here* |  |  | still |  | 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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