Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 74
Since he thus reigned with justice, with justice also his ministers administered the law.
Who acts: datta, ministers · What happens: reign, administer · To what, where: law
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (datta, ministers), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 4 reigned | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reigned | nsubj |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 reigned | advmod |
| 4 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 administered | advcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 justice | case |
| 6 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reigned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 justice | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 justice | case |
| 9 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 administered | obl |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 administered | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 administered | nsubj |
| 13 | administered | administer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 law | det |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 administered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 administered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past | datta | with justice; thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | administer | past | datta's ministers | the law | with justice | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent law=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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