sentencer
One imposing punishment
A sentencer is a judge or other authority who pronounces sentence on a convicted person: The sentencer has discretion in determining the length of imprisonment.
The term appears mainly in legal and criminological contexts, distinguishing the person who determines punishment from others involved in the trial process.
One who decides
- magistrateCivil judicial officer
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- verdictOfficial court decision
- pronouncementFormal authoritative statement
condemn · convict · punishment · ruling · decree · bench · gavel · criminal
Provision in agreement
- subjectMatter under discussion
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- structureArrangement of interconnected parts
phrase · object · complement · tense · mood · voice · agreement · subordination
Rules for arranging words
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- pragmaticsLanguage-in-context study
- lexicographyCompiling word reference books
phonology · etymology · linguist · discourse · corpus · lexicon · polysemy · parser
Syntax-interpreting program
- generatorElectricity-producing machine
- algorithmFinite problem-solving procedure
- NLPMachine language comprehension
- text-processingManipulating written data programmatically
tokenization · segmentation · analyzer · splitter · tool · program · module · library
judge
One who decides
- magistrateCivil judicial officer
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- verdictOfficial court decision
pronouncement · condemn · convict · punishment · ruling · decree · bench · gavel · criminal · defendant
clause
Provision in agreement
- subjectMatter under discussion
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- syntaxRules for arranging words
structure · phrase · object · complement · tense · mood · voice · agreement · subordination · coordination
syntax
Rules for arranging words
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- pragmaticsLanguage-in-context study
lexicography · phonology · etymology · linguist · discourse · corpus · lexicon · polysemy · parser · analyzer
parser
Syntax-interpreting program
- generatorElectricity-producing machine
- algorithmFinite problem-solving procedure
- NLPMachine language comprehension
text-processing · tokenization · segmentation · analyzer · splitter · tool · program · module · library · automated
sentencerdefendant
Party facing charges
defender · defense attorney · defense counsel · criminal defendant · public defender
sentencerpardoner
One granting forgiveness
absolver · liberator · emancipator · exonerator · releaser
- death sentenceJudicial order of execution
- life sentenceImprisonment without release
- prison sentenceMandated period of incarceration
- concurrent sentencesOverlapping punishment periods
- sentencing lawsStatutes governing criminal penalties
- complete sentence