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title: May not, asks Mr. Batten, the _Pancavudha Jataka_ be an idealised ac… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: May not, asks Mr. Batten, the _Pancavudha Jataka_ be an idealised account of an eclipse of the moon? Who acts: Pancavudha. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 30

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May not, asks Mr. Batten, the \_Pancavudha Jataka\_ be an idealised account of an eclipse of the moon?

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**Who acts:** Pancavudha · **What happens:** not ask, idealise, be, eclipse · **To what, where:** Batten, idealised account, moon

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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 (Pancavudha), 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:pg7128:56:30
# text = May not, asks Mr. Batten, the _Pancavudha Jataka_ be an idealised account of an eclipse of the moon?
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Batten	Batten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Pancavudha	Pancavudha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	idealised	idealise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | may |  |  | Batten  Mr. |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent batten=Recipient |
| 2 | **idealise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | Pancavudha | the idealised account |  |  |  | of a eclipse of the moon | tree rules |
| 4 | **eclipse** |  |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | nom eclipse «event 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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