Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 22
"The strong he overthrows by strength, The mild by mildness, does Mallika; The good he conquers by goodness, And the wicked by wickedness too.
Who acts: chorister, good · What happens: overthrow, do, conquer · To what, where: Mallika
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chorister, good), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 overthrows | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 strong | det |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 overthrows | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 overthrows | nsubj |
| 5 | overthrows | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 strength | case |
| 7 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overthrows | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mild | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mild | det |
| 10 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strength | amod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 mildness | case |
| 12 | mildness | mildness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mild | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 does | punct |
| 14 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 overthrows | conj |
| 15 | Mallika | Mallika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 does | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 conquers | punct |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 good | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 conquers | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 conquers | nsubj |
| 20 | conquers | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 overthrows | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 goodness | case |
| 22 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 conquers | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wicked | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wicked | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wicked | det |
| 26 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 conquers | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 wickedness | case |
| 28 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wicked | obl |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 wicked | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overthrows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overthrow in a quote | present | chorister | by strength | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | chorister not said here | Mallika | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mallika=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | conquer in a quote | present | the good | by goodness | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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