Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 40

The stories existing in Pali and Sanskrit I have taken from translations, mostly from the German of Benfey or the vigorous English of Professor Rhys-Davids, whom I have to thank for permission to use his versions of the Jatakas.

Who acts: stories, I, English Davids · What happens: exist, take, have, thank, use · To what, where: Pali, stories, translations, English Davids, versions

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, I, English Davids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taken	nsubj:pass
3	existing	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stories	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Pali	case
5	Pali	Pali	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 existing	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Sanskrit	cc
7	Sanskrit	Sanskrit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Pali	conj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 taken	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 translations	case
12	translations	translation	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taken	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 German	punct
14	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	17 German	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 German	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 German	det
17	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 taken	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Benfey	case
19	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 German	nmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 English	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 English	det
22	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 English	amod
23	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Davids	amod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Professor	case
25	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 English	nmod
26	Rhys	Rhys	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Professor	flat
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Rhys	punct
28	Davids	david	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 German	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 have	obj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Davids	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 thank	mark
34	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 have	xcomp
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 permission	case
36	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thank	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 use	mark
38	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 thank	advcl
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 versions	nmod:poss
40	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 use	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 Jatakas	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Jatakas	det
43	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 versions	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exist	gerund	the stories not said here		Pali and Sanskrit		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pali=Location
2	take	present · perfect · passive		the stories	translations	from the German of Benfey and English Davids	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from translation=Initial_Location
3	have	present	I	English Davids			tree rules
4	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	English Davids not said here			for permission	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for permission=Attribute
5	use	to-infinitive	English Davids not said here	David's versions of the Jatakas			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient

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.

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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