--- title: The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated? Who acts: trouble, we. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/63/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/63/) / 13 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 13 The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated? **Who acts:** trouble, we · **What happens:** become, live, withhold, promulgate, trouble · **To what, where:** trouble, judgement, faulty decisions, king, subject This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:63:13 # text = The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated? 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 judgement judgement NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 withheld withhold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 faulty faulty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 decisions decision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 promulgated promulgate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | present | the trouble of the king | the trouble of the subject | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **live** | shall | we | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **withhold** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | judgement | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **promulgate** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | faulty decisions | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **trouble** | | | the king | | | | | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **trouble** | | | the subject | | | | | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/63/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/63/14/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/63/)