Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 13

Duv Laca had a young attendant, who was her foster-sister as well as her servant, and on the day that she got married to Mongan, her attendant was married to mac an Da’v, who was servant and foster-brother to Mongan.

Who acts: Duv, young attendant, Da’v · What happens: have, be, marry, mac · To what, where: young attendant, foster sister, Duv, Mongan, attendant, Da’v

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, young attendant, Da’v), 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	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Duv	flat
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 attendant	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 attendant	amod
6	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sister	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sister	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sister	cop
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sister	nmod:poss
11	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sister	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 foster	punct
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attendant	appos
14	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	18 servant	cc
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 as	fixed
16	as	as	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 servant	nmod:poss
18	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sister	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 married	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 married	cc
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 day	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 married	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 married	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 married	nsubj:pass
26	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 married	aux:pass
27	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Mongan	case
29	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 married	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 married	punct
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 attendant	nmod:poss
32	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 married	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 married	aux:pass
34	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 married	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 mac	mark
36	mac	mac	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 married	xcomp
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 Da’v	det
38	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 mac	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 servant	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 servant	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 servant	cop
42	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Da’v	appos
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 brother	cc
44	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 brother	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 foster	punct
46	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 servant	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 Mongan	case
48	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 brother	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	Duv	a young attendant			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Patient
2	is a	past	a young attendant	Duv's foster sister as Duv's servant			tree rules
3	marry	past · passive		Duv	Mongan	day	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to mongan=Co-Patient
4	marry	past · passive		Mongan's attendant			tree rules
5	mac	to-infinitive		a Da’v			tree rules
6	is a	past	a Da’v	servant and foster brother to Mongan			tree rules

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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