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title: As long as it shall please God to keep me, and I have Durendal in my… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: As long as it shall please God to keep me, and I have Durendal in my hand, I care not one penny for any pagan, be he giant or other. Who acts: I, Durendal. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, with its dependency tre
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 71

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As long as it shall please God to keep me, and I have Durendal in my hand, I care not one penny for any pagan, be he giant or other.

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**Who acts:** I, Durendal · **What happens:** keep, have, not care, be · **To what, where:** me, Durendal, hand, one penny

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Durendal), 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:pg75339:20:71
# text = As long as it shall please God to keep me, and I have Durendal in my hand, I care not one penny for any pagan, be he giant or other.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	Durendal	Durendal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	pagan	pagan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | shall |  | me |  |  |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | Durendal |  | my hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent durendal=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **care** | present | I | one penny |  |  |  | for any pagan | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | Durendal |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Durendal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «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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