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title: The Jataka accordingly contains the Buddhist explanation why the moo… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Jataka accordingly contains the Buddhist explanation why the moon--_i.e._ the hare in the moon, _i.e._ Buddha--is not altogether swallowed up by the Demon of Eclipse, the Demon with the Matted Hair. Who acts: Jataka, Demon. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 32

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The Jataka accordingly contains the Buddhist explanation why the moon--\_i.e.\_ the hare in the moon, \_i.e.\_ Buddha--is not altogether swallowed up by the Demon of Eclipse, the Demon with the Matted Hair.

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**Who acts:** Jataka, Demon · **What happens:** contain, not swallow up · **To what, where:** Buddhist explanation

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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 (Jataka, Demon), 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:pg7128:56:32
# text = The Jataka accordingly contains the Buddhist explanation why the moon--_i.e._ the hare in the moon, _i.e._ Buddha--is not altogether swallowed up by the Demon of Eclipse, the Demon with the Matted Hair.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	_
24	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Demon	Demon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl:agent	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Eclipse	Eclipse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Matted	Matted	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Hair	Hair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | the Jataka | the Buddhist explanation |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot explanation=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **swallow up** | present · passive | the Demon of Eclipse |  |  |  |  | Buddha *vocative*; altogether *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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