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description: Be strong now, and take comfort, and also, for you are weak with long fasting, eat of this food." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 11

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Be strong now, and take comfort, and also, for you are weak with long fasting, eat of this food."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, take, eat · **To what, where:** comfort

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. 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:pg75339:23:11
# text = Be strong now, and take comfort, and also, for you are weak with long fasting, eat of this food."
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fasting	fasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | comfort |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | with long fasting; weak *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of this food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of food=Source |

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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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