Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 12

_--The five-fold attack on the Demon and the Tar Baby is so preposterously ludicrous that it cannot have been independently invented, and we must therefore assume that they are causally connected, and the existence of the variant in South Africa clinches the matter, and gives us a landing-stage between India and America.

Who acts: fold attack, we, existence, variant · What happens: be, not invent, assume, connect, clinch, give · To what, where: attack, Demon, matter, landing stage, us

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 (fold attack, we, existence, variant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 ludicrous	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 attack	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 attack	det
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fold	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 five	punct
6	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attack	compound
7	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ludicrous	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Demon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Demon	det
10	Demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attack	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Baby	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Baby	det
13	Tar	Tar	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Baby	compound
14	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Demon	conj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ludicrous	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 ludicrous	advmod
17	preposterously	preposterously	ADV	_	18 ludicrous	advmod
18	ludicrous	ludicrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 invented	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 invented	nsubj:pass
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 invented	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 invented	advmod
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 invented	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 invented	aux:pass
25	independently	independently	ADV	_	26 invented	advmod
26	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ludicrous	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 assume	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 assume	cc
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 assume	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 assume	aux
31	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	32 assume	advmod
32	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ludicrous	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 connected	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 connected	nsubj:pass
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 connected	aux:pass
36	causally	causally	ADV	_	37 connected	advmod
37	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 assume	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 clinches	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 clinches	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 existence	det
41	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 clinches	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 variant	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 variant	det
44	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 existence	nmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 Africa	case
46	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Africa	compound
47	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 variant	nmod
48	clinches	clinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ludicrous	parataxis
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 matter	det
50	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 clinches	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 gives	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 gives	cc
53	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 clinches	conj
54	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 gives	iobj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 stage	det
56	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 stage	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 landing	punct
58	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 gives	obj
59	between	between	ADP	_	60 India	case
60	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 stage	nmod
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 America	cc
62	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 India	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 ludicrous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fold attack on the Demon and the Tar Baby			ludicrous, preposterously property	tree rules
2	not invent	can · perfect · passive		attack		independently property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	assume	must	we			therefore property	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	connect	present · passive		Demon		causally property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	clinch	present	the existence of the variant in South Africa	the matter			tree rules
6	give	present	the existence of the variant in South Africa not said here	a landing stage	us	between India and America	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient stage=Theme
7	exist		the variant in South Africa				nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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