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title: “Nor did I,” Becuma replied, and she called on the onlookers to conf… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Nor did I,” Becuma replied, and she called on the onlookers to confirm that statement. Who acts: Becuma. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 40

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“Nor did I,” Becuma replied, and she called on the onlookers to confirm that statement.

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**Who acts:** Becuma · **What happens:** do, reply, call, confirm · **To what, where:** onlookers, statement · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg2892:69:40
# text = “Nor did I,” Becuma replied, and she called on the onlookers to confirm that statement.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nor	nor	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	onlookers	onlooker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	confirm	confirm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Becuma |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Becuma |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **call** | past | Becuma |  |  | the onlookers |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **confirm** | to-infinitive | Becuma *not said here* | that statement |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot statement=Topic |

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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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