Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 34

It is obviously unfair of Mr. Batten both to illustrate and also to explain so well the Tar Baby Jataka--taking the scientific bread, so to speak, out of a poor folk-lorist's mouth--but his explanations seem to me so convincing that I cannot avoid including them in these Notes.

Who acts: writer, explanations, I, Batten · What happens: be, illustrate, explain, take, speak, seem · To what, where: Tar Baby, scientific bread, mouth, me, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (writer, explanations, I, Batten), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unfair	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unfair	cop
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	4 unfair	advmod
4	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Batten	case
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Batten	nmod:desc
7	Batten	Batten	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 unfair	obl
8	both	both	ADV	_	10 illustrate	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 illustrate	mark
10	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unfair	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 explain	cc
12	also	also	ADV	_	14 explain	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 explain	mark
14	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 illustrate	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 explain	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Baby	det
18	Tar	Tar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Baby	compound
19	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 explain	obj
20	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Baby	flat
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 taking	punct
22	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 explain	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bread	det
24	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bread	amod
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taking	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 speak	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 speak	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 speak	mark
29	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unfair	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 mouth	punct
31	out	out	ADP	_	39 mouth	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	39 mouth	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lorist	det
34	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 lorist	amod
35	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lorist	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 folk	punct
37	lorist	lorist	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mouth	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 lorist	case
39	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 speak	obl
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 seem	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 seem	cc
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 explanations	nmod:poss
43	explanations	explanation	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 seem	nsubj
44	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 speak	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 me	case
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 seem	obl
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 convincing	advmod
48	convincing	convincing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 seem	xcomp
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 avoid	mark
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 avoid	nsubj
51	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 avoid	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 avoid	advmod
53	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 convincing	advcl
54	including	include	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 Notes	case
55	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 including	obj
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 Notes	case
57	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	58 Notes	det
58	Notes	Note	PROPN	Number=Plur	53 avoid	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unfair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	writer				of Batten Mr.; obviously, unfair property	tree rules
2	illustrate	to-infinitive	writer not said here				both property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	writer not said here	the Tar Baby			well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic
4	take	gerund	writer not said here	the scientific bread				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	writer not said here			a poor folk lorist's mouth		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	seem	present	Batten's explanations		me		convincing property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	not avoid	can	I				include this Notes	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
8	include	gerund		eyes = eye				vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	explain		Batten					nom explanation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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