Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 12
Becuma considered that if she must suffer all else she met should suffer also.
Who acts: Becuma · What happens: consider, suffer, meet
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 considered | nsubj |
| 2 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 suffer | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 suffer | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 suffer | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 suffer | aux |
| 7 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 considered | ccomp |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 met | advmod |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 met | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 suffer | advcl |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffer | aux |
| 13 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 met | xcomp |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 suffer | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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