Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 27

The negro variant has also suggested to Mr. Batten an explanation of the whole story which is extremely plausible, though it introduces a method of folk-lore exegesis which has been overdriven to death.

Who acts: whole story, variant · What happens: suggest, be, introduce, overdrive, explain · To what, where: negro variant, Batten, method, lore exegesis

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 (whole story, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 variant	det
2	negro	negro	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 variant	amod
3	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suggested	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 suggested	aux
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 suggested	advmod
6	suggested	suggest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Batten	case
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Batten	nmod:desc
9	Batten	Batten	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 suggested	obl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 explanation	det
11	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Batten	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 story	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 story	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 story	amod
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 explanation	nmod
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 plausible	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 plausible	cop
18	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	19 plausible	advmod
19	plausible	plausible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 story	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 introduces	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 introduces	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 introduces	nsubj
23	introduces	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 suggested	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 method	det
25	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 introduces	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 exegesis	case
27	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lore	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 folk	punct
29	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 exegesis	compound
30	exegesis	exegesis	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 method	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 overdriven	nsubj:pass
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 overdriven	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 overdriven	aux:pass
34	overdriven	overdrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 exegesis	acl:relcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 death	case
36	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 overdriven	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 suggested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · perfect · passive		the negro variant	Batten Mr.		vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to batten=Recipient
2	is	present	the whole story			extremely, plausible property	tree rules
3	introduce	present	variant	a method of lore exegesis			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Patient
4	overdrive	present · perfect · passive		lore exegesis		to death	tree rules
5	explain		the whole story				nom explanation «communication 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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