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title: For a long time he had been at enmity and spiteful warfare with Fiac… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its depende
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 12

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:79:12
# text = 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.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	enmity	enmity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
37	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Hand	Hand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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