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title: "The strong he overthrows by strength, The mild by mildness, does Ma… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "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. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 22

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"The strong he overthrows by strength, The mild by mildness, does Mallika; The good he conquers by goodness, And the wicked by wickedness too.

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**Who acts:** chorister, good · **What happens:** overthrow, do, conquer · **To what, where:** Mallika

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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.

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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:pg7128:20:22
# text = "The strong he overthrows by strength, The mild by mildness, does Mallika; The good he conquers by goodness, And the wicked by wickedness too.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	overthrows	overthrow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mildness	mildness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	Mallika	Mallika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	conquers	conquer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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