Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 16

The question is still before the courts, and one can only deal with it as an advocate.

Who acts: question, one · What happens: be, deal · To what, where: courts

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 courts	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 courts	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	7 courts	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 courts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 courts	det
7	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deal	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 deal	cc
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 deal	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 deal	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 deal	advmod
13	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 courts	acl:relcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 deal	obl
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 advocate	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 advocate	det
18	advocate	advocate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deal	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 courts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the question				before the courts; still		tree rules
2	deal	can	one	the courts not said here				with question; as a advocate	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=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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