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title: For, unless they are wise and strong, they cannot keep the kingdom w… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: For, unless they are wise and strong, they cannot keep the kingdom which I have won for them. Who acts: sons, kingdom. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 4

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For, unless they are wise and strong, they cannot keep the kingdom which I have won for them.

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**Who acts:** sons, kingdom · **What happens:** be, not keep, win · **To what, where:** kingdom

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, kingdom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg18442:6:4
# text = For, unless they are wise and strong, they cannot keep the kingdom which I have won for them.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | sons *= son* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **keep** | can | sons *= son* | the kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
| 4 | **win** | present · perfect | the kingdom |  |  |  |  | for sons *= son* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary |

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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:** «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.

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