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title: An apter one for him I keep: One day ’twill raise a laugh!’ — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: An apter one for him I keep: One day ’twill raise a laugh!’ Who acts: I, apter one. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 40

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An apter one for him I keep: One day ’twill raise a laugh!’

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**Who acts:** I, apter one · **What happens:** keep, raise · **To what, where:** apter one, laugh

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, apter one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:12:42
# text = An apter one for him I keep: One day ’twill raise a laugh!’
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	apter	apt	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	twill	twill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | I | a apter one for Eric *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **raise** | infinitive | a apter one for Eric | a laugh |  |  |  | day twill *nsubj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme |

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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:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (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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