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title: Becuma considered that if she must suffer all else she met should su… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 12

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Becuma considered that if she must suffer all else she met should suffer also.

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**Who acts:** Becuma · **What happens:** consider, suffer, meet

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becuma), 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:pg2892:69:12
# text = Becuma considered that if she must suffer all else she met should suffer also.
1	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	else	else	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	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 | **consider** | past | Becuma |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **suffer** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | Becuma |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **meet** | past | Becuma |  |  |  |  | all, else *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **suffer** | should | Becuma *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:** «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.

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