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title: That night there was a feast, and after the feast there was a banque… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That night there was a feast, and after the feast there was a banquet, and all through the feast and the banquet the King of Leinster stared at Duv Laca with joy, and sometimes his breast was delivered of great sighs, and at times he moved as though in perturbation of spirit and mental agony. Who ac
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 26

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That night there was a feast, and after the feast there was a banquet, and all through the feast and the banquet the King of Leinster stared at Duv Laca with joy, and sometimes his breast was delivered of great sighs, and at times he moved as though in perturbation of spirit and mental agony.

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**Who acts:** feast, King · **What happens:** be, deliver, move, perturb · **To what, where:** Duv, breast, perturbation, spirit

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, King), 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:pg2892:82:26
# text = That night there was a feast, and after the feast there was a banquet, and all through the feast and the banquet the King of Leinster stared at Duv Laca with joy, and sometimes his breast was delivered of great sighs, and at times he moved as though in perturbation of spirit and mental agony.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	41	advmod	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	parataxis	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
51	as	as	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	perturbation	perturbation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the feast and the banquet |  |  | Duv | after the feast | with joy; stare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deliver** | past · passive |  | King's breast |  |  |  | of great sighs; sometimes *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme of sigh=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **move** | past | King |  |  | perturbation of spirit and mental agony | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in perturbation=Trajectory |
| 4 | **perturb** |  |  | spirit |  |  |  |  | nom perturbation «state transitive»: of=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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