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title: No wonder Brer Rabbit is so 'cute: he is nothing less than an incarn… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No wonder Brer Rabbit is so 'cute: he is nothing less than an incarnation of Buddha. Who acts: wonder, worship. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 21

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No wonder Brer Rabbit is so 'cute: he is nothing less than an incarnation of Buddha.

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**Who acts:** wonder, worship · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 (wonder, worship), 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:pg7128:56:21
# text = No wonder Brer Rabbit is so 'cute: he is nothing less than an incarnation of Buddha.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	cute	cute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	parataxis	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	incarnation	incarnation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no wonder |  |  |  |  | cute *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | worship | nothing |  |  |  |  | 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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