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title: The conception of an animal sacrificing itself for the sake of other… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The conception of an animal sacrificing itself for the sake of others is peculiarly Buddhistic; the "hare in the moon" is an apotheosis of such a piece of self-sacrifice on the part of Buddha (_Sasa Jataka_). Who acts: animal, conception, hare. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 21

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The conception of an animal sacrificing itself for the sake of others is peculiarly Buddhistic; the "hare in the moon" is an apotheosis of such a piece of self-sacrifice on the part of Buddha (\_Sasa Jataka\_).

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**Who acts:** animal, conception, hare · **What happens:** sacrifice, be, conceive · **To what, where:** conception, apotheosis, part, animal

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, conception, 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:pg7885:55:21
# text = The conception of an animal sacrificing itself for the sake of others is peculiarly Buddhistic; the "hare in the moon" is an apotheosis of such a piece of self-sacrifice on the part of Buddha (_Sasa Jataka_).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	sacrificing	sacrifice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	Buddhistic	Buddhistic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	apotheosis	apotheosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Sasa	Sasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
43	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sacrifice** | gerund | a animal *not said here* | conception |  |  |  | for the sake of others | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the conception of a animal |  |  |  |  | peculiarly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the hare in the moon | a apotheosis |  | the part of Buddha |  | of such piece of self sacrifice | tree rules |
| 4 | **conceive** |  |  | a animal |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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