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title: It is probable that, however courageously she had accepted fate, Bec… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is probable that, however courageously she had accepted fate, Becuma had been sharply stricken in her pride; in the sense of personal strength, aloofness, and identity, in which the mind likens itself to god and will resist every domination but its own. Who acts: feeling, trouble, Becuma, mind. A
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 5

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It is probable that, however courageously she had accepted fate, Becuma had been sharply stricken in her pride; in the sense of personal strength, aloofness, and identity, in which the mind likens itself to god and will resist every domination but its own.

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**Who acts:** feeling, trouble, Becuma, mind · **What happens:** be, accept, liken, god, resist, pride · **To what, where:** fate, pride, feeling, sense, domination, personal strength

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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 (feeling, trouble, Becuma, mind), 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:pg2892:69:5
# text = It is probable that, however courageously she had accepted fate, Becuma had been sharply stricken in her pride; in the sense of personal strength, aloofness, and identity, in which the mind likens itself to god and will resist every domination but its own.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	courageously	courageously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
16	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	aloofness	aloofness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	likens	liken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
39	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	god	god	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
45	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	domination	domination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | feeling |  |  |  |  | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accept** | past · perfect | trouble | fate |  |  |  | courageously *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | Becuma |  |  | trouble's pride |  | sharply, stricken *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **liken** | present | the mind | feeling |  | the sense of personal strength and aloofness and identity |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **god** | to-infinitive | the mind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **resist** | future | the mind *not said here* | every domination |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pride** |  | trouble |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **sense** |  |  | personal strength and aloofness |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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