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title: Said Mongan: There was an attendant in Fiachna Finn’s palace who was… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 5

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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.

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**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

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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 (Mongan, attendant, wife, same night), 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:pg2892:79:5
# text = 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.
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
24	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
37	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	also	also	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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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