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title: Now there was a grandson to the Dagda Mor, the Lord of the Underworl… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII, with its de
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 2

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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’.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:25:2
# text = 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’.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Dagda	Dagda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Underworld	Underworld	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
22	mac	mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	Midna	Midna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	Finnachy	Finnachy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	implacable	implacable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	enmity	enmity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	Ard	Ard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	_
44	Ri	Ri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
45	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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