--- title: Duv Laca had a young attendant, who was her foster-sister as well as… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James St --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/84/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter XIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/84/) / 13 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:84:13 # text = 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. 1 Duv Duv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Laca Laca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 attendant attendant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 14 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 18 cc _ _ 15 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 fixed _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Mongan Mongan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 attendant attendant NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 mac mac VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Da’v Da'v PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Mongan Mongan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/84/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/84/14/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/84/)