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title: “There is yet but one Ard-Ri’,” the monarch answered. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “There is yet but one Ard-Ri’,” the monarch answered. Who acts: one Ard Ri, monarch. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 46

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“There is yet but one Ard-Ri’,” the monarch answered.

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**Who acts:** one Ard Ri, monarch · **What happens:** be, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one Ard Ri, monarch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:1205`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:40:46
# text = “There is yet but one Ard-Ri’,” the monarch answered.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	but	but	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	Ard	Ard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Ri	Ri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | one Ard Ri |  |  | there | yet |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the monarch |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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