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description: I consider, therefore, that he has been treated in a shameful and unjustifiable manner, and so I have brought him here to plead his cause in person and to claim redress.” Who acts: I, monster. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 88

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I consider, therefore, that he has been treated in a shameful and unjustifiable manner, and so I have brought him here to plead his cause in person and to claim redress.”

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**Who acts:** I, monster · **What happens:** consider, treat, bring, plead, claim, cause · **To what, where:** monster, shameful manner, cause, redress

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, monster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:16:88
# text = I consider, therefore, that he has been treated in a shameful and unjustifiable manner, and so I have brought him here to plead his cause in person and to claim redress.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	consider	consider	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	shameful	shameful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	unjustifiable	unjustifiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	plead	plead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
34	redress	redress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present | I |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **treat** | present · perfect · passive |  | monster |  | a shameful manner |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **bring** | present · perfect | I |  | monster | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 4 | **plead** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | monster's cause |  |  |  | in person | tree rules |
| 5 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | redress |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent redress=Topic |
| 6 | **cause** |  | monster |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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