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title: The _Sasa Jataka_ identifies the Brer Rabbit Buddha with the hare in… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Sasa Jataka_ identifies the Brer Rabbit Buddha with the hare in the moon. Who acts: Sasa. 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 28

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The \_Sasa Jataka\_ identifies the Brer Rabbit Buddha with the hare in the moon.

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**Who acts:** Sasa · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** Rabbit Buddha, moon

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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 (Sasa), 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:pg7128:56:28
# text = The _Sasa Jataka_ identifies the Brer Rabbit Buddha with the hare in the moon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Sasa	Sasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
6	identifies	identify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | present | the Sasa | the Rabbit Buddha |  | the moon |  | with the hare | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent buddha=Theme |

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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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