Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 77

Though the judges sat all day in the court, they had to leave without any one coming for justice.

Who acts: judges, one · What happens: sit, have, leave, come · To what, where: court

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 (judges, one), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	4 sat	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 judges	det
3	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	advcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 court	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 court	det
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 leave	mark
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 one	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leave	obl
18	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 one	acl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 justice	case
20	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 coming	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the judges	the court	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in court=Location
2	have	past	judges = judge				tree rules
3	leave	to-infinitive	judges = judge not said here			without any one	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	gerund	any one not said here			for justice	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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