Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 2

Now there was a grandson to the Dagda Mor, the Lord of the Underworld, and he was named Aillen mac Midna, out of Shi’ Finnachy, and this Aillen bore an implacable enmity to Tara and the Ard-Ri’.

Who acts: grandson, Aillen · What happens: be, name, bear · To what, where: grandson, implacable enmity

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandson, Aillen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:667): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grandson	det
5	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Dagda	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Dagda	det
8	Dagda	Dagda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 grandson	nmod
9	Mor	Mor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Dagda	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Lord	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lord	det
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Dagda	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Underworld	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Underworld	det
15	Underworld	Underworld	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lord	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 named	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 named	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 named	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 named	aux:pass
20	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 was	conj
21	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 named	xcomp
22	mac	mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Aillen	flat
23	Midna	Midna	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Aillen	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Shi	punct
25	out	out	ADP	_	27 Shi	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 out	fixed
27	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Aillen	nmod
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 Shi	punct
29	Finnachy	Finnachy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Shi	flat
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bore	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Aillen	cc
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 Aillen	det
33	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 bore	nsubj
34	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 enmity	det
36	implacable	implacable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 enmity	amod
37	enmity	enmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bore	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 Tara	case
39	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 enmity	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 Ri	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Ri	det
42	Ard	Ard	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Ri	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 Ard	punct
44	Ri	Ri	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Tara	conj
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	44 Ri	punct
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a grandson to the Dagda		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	name	past · passive		grandson				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	bear	past	this Aillen	a implacable enmity			to Tara and the Ard Ri	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enmity=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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