--- title: When Duv Laca went away with the King of Leinster, her servant, mac… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When Duv Laca went away with the King of Leinster, her servant, mac an Da’v’s wife, went with her, so there were two wifeless men in Ulster at that time, namely, Mongan the king and mac an Da’v his servant. Who acts: Duv, you, wife, two wifeless men. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, you, wife, two wifeless men), 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:pg2892:84:14 # text = When Duv Laca went away with the King of Leinster, her servant, mac an Da’v’s wife, went with her, so there were two wifeless men in Ulster at that time, namely, Mongan the king and mac an Da’v his servant. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 Duv Duv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Laca Laca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Leinster Leinster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 15 mac mac VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Da’v Da'v PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ _ 27 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 28 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 29 wifeless wifeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Ulster Ulster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 namely namely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Mongan Mongan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 mac mac NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 44 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 Da’v Da'v PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go away** | past | Duv | | | | | with the King of Leinster and Duv's servant; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with king=Beneficiary | | 2 | **mac** | imperative | you *not said here* | a Da’v's wife | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | past | a Da’v's wife *not said here* | | | | | with Duv | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | | 4 | **be** | past | two wifeless men in Ulster at that time | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/84/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/84/15/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/84/)