Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 73

How can we expect justice from such a stupid king as that?

Who acts: we · What happens: expect · To what, where: justice

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 expect	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 expect	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 expect	nsubj
4	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 expect	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 king	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 king	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 king	det
9	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 king	amod
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 expect	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 king	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 expect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	can	we	justice				from such stupid king as that	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Theme

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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