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title: I have sufficient confidence of the method employed to venture on th… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have sufficient confidence of the method employed to venture on that most hazardous of employments, scientific prophecy. Who acts: I, sufficient confidence. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 37

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

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

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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 (I, sufficient confidence), 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:pg7128:56:37
# text = I have sufficient confidence of the method employed to venture on that most hazardous of employments, scientific prophecy.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	employed	employ	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	hazardous	hazardous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	employments	employment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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