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title: Among the Karens of Burmah, where Buddhist influence is still active… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the Karens of Burmah, where Buddhist influence is still active, the Hare holds exactly the same place in their folk-lore as Brer Rabbit among the negroes. Who acts: Karens, Hare. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., with its dependency tree
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 22

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Among the Karens of Burmah, where Buddhist influence is still active, the Hare holds exactly the same place in their folk-lore as Brer Rabbit among the negroes.

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**Who acts:** Karens, Hare · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** same place, folk lore

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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 (Karens, Hare), 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:pg7128:56:22
# text = Among the Karens of Burmah, where Buddhist influence is still active, the Hare holds exactly the same place in their folk-lore as Brer Rabbit among the negroes.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Karens	Karen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Burmah	Burmah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
8	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Karens of Burmah |  |  |  | still | active *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | the Hare | the same place |  | Karens's folk lore as Brer Rabbit |  | among the negroes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme in lore=Location |

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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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