Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 12

For a long time he had been at enmity and spiteful warfare with Fiachna Finn; and to this Fiachna Duv there was born in the same night a daughter, and this girl was named Duv Laca of the White Hand.

Who acts: prince · What happens: be, bear, name · To what, where: enmity, Fiachna Duv, girl

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 (prince), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enmity	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 enmity	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 enmity	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 enmity	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 enmity	case
9	enmity	enmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 warfare	cc
11	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 warfare	amod
12	warfare	warfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enmity	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 Fiachna	case
14	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 warfare	nmod
15	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Fiachna	flat
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 born	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 born	cc
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 Duv	case
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 Duv	nsubj
20	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Duv	compound
21	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 born	nsubj:pass
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 born	aux:pass
24	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 enmity	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 night	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 night	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 night	amod
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 born	obl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 daughter	det
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 born	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 named	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 named	cc
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 girl	det
34	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 named	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 named	aux:pass
36	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 born	conj
37	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Laca	compound
38	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 named	xcomp
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Hand	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Hand	det
41	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Hand	amod
42	Hand	Hand	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Laca	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 enmity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	prince		enmity and spiteful warfare with Fiachna	time		tree rules
2	bear	past · passive		Fiachna Duv		night	a daughter obl:unmarked	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	name	past · passive		this girl				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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