Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 75
Law-suits being thus decided with justice, there were none who brought false cases.
Who acts: none · What happens: decide, be, bring · To what, where: Law suits, false cases
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 (none), 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 | Law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suits | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Law | punct |
| 3 | suits | suit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 decided | aux:pass |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 decided | advmod |
| 6 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 justice | case |
| 8 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 decided | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 were | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 were | expl |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 decided | conj |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 were | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 brought | nsubj |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 none | acl:relcl |
| 15 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cases | amod |
| 16 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | gerund · passive | Law suits | with justice; thus property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | past | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | false cases | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent case=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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