Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 5

Said Mongan: There was an attendant in Fiachna Finn’s palace who was called An Da’v, and the same night that Fiachna’s wife bore a son, the wife of An Da’v gave birth to a son also.

Who acts: Mongan, attendant, wife, same night · What happens: say, be, call, bear, give · To what, where: palace, same night, birth, son · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mongan, attendant, wife, same night), 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct
4	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	ccomp
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 attendant	det
7	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 palace	case
9	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Finn	compound
10	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 palace	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Finn	case
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attendant	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 called	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 called	aux:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 palace	acl:relcl
16	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Da’v	det
17	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 gave	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 night	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 night	amod
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gave	nsubj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 bore	obj
24	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 wife	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 Fiachna	case
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bore	nsubj
27	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 night	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 son	det
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bore	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wife	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wife	det
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 son	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Da’v	case
34	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 Da’v	det
35	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 wife	nmod
36	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	conj
37	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gave	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 son	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 son	det
40	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gave	obl
41	also	also	ADV	_	36 gave	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mongan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past	a attendant in Fiachna Finn's palace			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	past · passive		Fiachna Finn's palace			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	bear	past	Fiachna's wife	the same night			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary son=Patient
5	give	past	the same night	birth	a son		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to son=Recipient

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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