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title: I should perhaps add that the Bodhisat is not precisely the Buddha h… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I should perhaps add that the Bodhisat is not precisely the Buddha himself but a character which is on its way to becoming perfectly enlightened, and so may be called a future Buddha. Who acts: I, Bodhisat, character. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIX. the Pigeon and the Crow
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXIX. the Pigeon and the Crow., sentence 5

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I should perhaps add that the Bodhisat is not precisely the Buddha himself but a character which is on its way to becoming perfectly enlightened, and so may be called a future Buddha.

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**Who acts:** I, Bodhisat, character · **What happens:** add, not be, be, become, enlighten, call · **To what, where:** animal, Buddha, way, future · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIX. the Pigeon and the Crow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Bodhisat, character), 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:pg7128:60:5
# text = I should perhaps add that the Bodhisat is not precisely the Buddha himself but a character which is on its way to becoming perfectly enlightened, and so may be called a future Buddha.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Bodhisat	Bodhisat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
22	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	enlightened	enlighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	_
34	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | should | I | animal |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | the Bodhisat | the Buddha |  |  |  | precisely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a character |  |  | character's way |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **enlighten** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **call** | may · passive |  | a future |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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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