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description: There should be enough material to determine the vexed question of the relations between the European and the Indian collections. Who acts: enough material. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 65

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There should be enough material to determine the vexed question of the relations between the European and the Indian collections.

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**Who acts:** enough material · **What happens:** be, determine, vex, question · **To what, where:** vexed question, relations

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enough material), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:30:65
# text = There should be enough material to determine the vexed question of the relations between the European and the Indian collections.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	determine	determine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | should | enough material |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **determine** | to-infinitive | enough material *not said here* | the vexed question of the relations between the European and the Indian collections |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic |
| 3 | **vex** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **question** |  |  | the relations between the European and the Indian collections |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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