Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 37

I have sufficient confidence of the method employed to venture on that most hazardous of employments, scientific prophecy.

Who acts: I, sufficient confidence · What happens: have, employ, venture · To what, where: sufficient confidence, hazardous scientific prophecy

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 (I, sufficient confidence), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 confidence	amod
4	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 method	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 method	det
7	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 employed	obl
8	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 confidence	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 venture	mark
10	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 employed	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	19 prophecy	case
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 hazardous	mark
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 hazardous	amod
14	hazardous	hazardous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 prophecy	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 employments	case
16	employments	employment	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hazardous	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hazardous	punct
18	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 prophecy	amod
19	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 venture	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	sufficient confidence			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient
2	employ	past	sufficient confidence not said here			of the method	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	venture	to-infinitive	sufficient confidence not said here		hazardous scientific prophecy		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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