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title: Whoever struck that bell claimed justice, and got justice of Anangap… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoever struck that bell claimed justice, and got justice of Anangapal the King. Who acts: Whoever, bell. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 146

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Whoever struck that bell claimed justice, and got justice of Anangapal the King.

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**Who acts:** Whoever, bell · **What happens:** strike, claim, get · **To what, where:** bell, justice

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This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whoever, bell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg69647:2:146
# text = Whoever struck that bell claimed justice, and got justice of Anangapal the King.
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	claimed	claim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Anangapal	Anangapal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Whoever | that bell |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | participle | that bell *not said here* | justice |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent justice=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | past | Whoever *not said here* | justice of Anangapal |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer justice=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Text:** «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (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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