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title: There can be little doubt that the Jataka of Prince Five Weapons cam… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There can be little doubt that the Jataka of Prince Five Weapons came to Africa, possibly by Buddhist missionaries, spread among the negroes, and then took ship in the holds of slavers for the New World, where it is to be found in fuller form than any yet discovered in the home of its birth. Who act
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 13

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There can be little doubt that the Jataka of Prince Five Weapons came to Africa, possibly by Buddhist missionaries, spread among the negroes, and then took ship in the holds of slavers for the New World, where it is to be found in fuller form than any yet discovered in the home of its birth.

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**Who acts:** little doubt, Jataka, fuller form · **What happens:** be, come, spread, take, find, discover · **To what, where:** little doubt, Africa, Buddhist missionaries, negroes, ship, slavers

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little doubt, Jataka, fuller form), 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:pg7128:56:13
# text = There can be little doubt that the Jataka of Prince Five Weapons came to Africa, possibly by Buddhist missionaries, spread among the negroes, and then took ship in the holds of slavers for the New World, where it is to be found in fuller form than any yet discovered in the home of its birth.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	Weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
30	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	slavers	slaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	46	advmod	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	fuller	full	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	49	amod	_	_
49	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | can | little doubt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Jataka of Prince | little doubt *not said here* | Africa |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doubt=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | participle |  | Buddhist missionaries *not said here* |  | the negroes |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among negro=Location |
| 4 | **take** | past | the Jataka of Prince *not said here* | ship |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the slavers |  | for the New World | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | present · passive | the Jataka of Prince *not said here* | Jataka |  | fuller form |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 7 | **discover** | participle · passive | fuller form *not said here* | any |  | the home of Jataka's birth | yet |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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