---
title: Take my daughter; be my heir; rule my kingdom. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Take my daughter; be my heir; rule my kingdom. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/45/39/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / [The Endless Tale.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/45/) / 39

# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 39

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Take my daughter; be my heir; rule my kingdom.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, be, rule · **To what, where:** daughter, heir, kingdom

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg18442:45:39
# text = Take my daughter; be my heir; rule my kingdom.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	rule	rule	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | my daughter |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | my heir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/45/38/)
- next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/45/40/)
- ↑ back to [The Endless Tale.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/45/)