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title: Meanwhile take your choice of two things: either depart out of this… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile take your choice of two things: either depart out of this country, taking nothing with you, or stand forth and fight with me.'" Who acts: you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, with its dependency
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 90

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Meanwhile take your choice of two things: either depart out of this country, taking nothing with you, or stand forth and fight with me.'"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, depart, stand, fight · **To what, where:** choice, country, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:16:90
# text = Meanwhile take your choice of two things: either depart out of this country, taking nothing with you, or stand forth and fight with me.'"
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	depart	depart	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fight	fight	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | your choice of two things |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme |
| 2 | **depart** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | this country |  | either *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | you *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fight** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with me | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent |

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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:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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