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title: Law-suits being thus decided with justice, there were none who broug… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Law-suits being thus decided with justice, there were none who brought false cases. Who acts: none. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 75

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Law-suits being thus decided with justice, there were none who brought false cases.

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**Who acts:** none · **What happens:** decide, be, bring · **To what, where:** Law suits, false cases

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:19:75
# text = Law-suits being thus decided with justice, there were none who brought false cases.
1	Law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	suits	suit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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