Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 74

Unless he adopt a better standard of justice we will go on with our destruction."

Who acts: prince, we, our · What happens: adopt, go on, destroy · To what, where: better standard

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 (prince, we, our), 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	Unless	unless	SCONJ	_	3 adopt	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 adopt	nsubj
3	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 standard	det
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 standard	amod
6	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adopt	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 justice	case
8	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standard	nmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 standard	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 destruction	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 destruction	nmod:poss
15	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 adopt	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 adopt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	adopt	infinitive	prince	a better standard of justice		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Theme
2	go on	future	we	a better standard of justice not said here	with our destruction	tree rules
3	destroy		our			nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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