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title: The negro variant has also suggested to Mr. Batten an explanation of… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Dem
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 27

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg7128:56:27
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	negro	negro	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Batten	Batten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	plausible	plausible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	introduces	introduce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	exegesis	exegesis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	overdriven	overdrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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