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title: The Bodhisatta was at one time born in the region of Himavanta as a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bodhisatta was at one time born in the region of Himavanta as a white crane; now Brahmadatta was at that time reigning in Benares. Who acts: Bodhisatta, Brahmadatta, time. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 6

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The Bodhisatta was at one time born in the region of Himavanta as a white crane; now Brahmadatta was at that time reigning in Benares.

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**Who acts:** Bodhisatta, Brahmadatta, time · **What happens:** be, bear, reign · **To what, where:** one time, region, Benares

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bodhisatta, Brahmadatta, time), 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:pg7128:7:6
# text = The Bodhisatta was at one time born in the region of Himavanta as a white crane; now Brahmadatta was at that time reigning in Benares.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bodhisatta	Bodhisatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Himavanta	Himavanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
19	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	reigning	reign	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Benares	Benares	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Bodhisatta |  |  |  | at one time and that time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | one time and that time *not said here* |  | the region of Himavanta |  | as a white crane | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Brahmadatta |  |  |  | at that time; now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reign** | gerund | that time *not said here* |  |  | Benares |  |  | 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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