---
title: Arm yourselves, I pray you, and I will cause your horses to be made… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arm yourselves, I pray you, and I will cause your horses to be made ready, so, if God pleases, you will be in good time." Who acts: Arm, I, God, 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 prag
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/23/49/)

<!-- 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/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [Of Guy of Burgundy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/23/) / 49

# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 49

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Arm yourselves, I pray you, and I will cause your horses to be made ready, so, if God pleases, you will be in good time."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Arm, I, God, you · **What happens:** pray, cause, make, please, be · **To what, where:** you, horses

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Arm, I, God, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:23:49
# text = Arm yourselves, I pray you, and I will cause your horses to be made ready, so, if God pleases, you will be in good time."
1	Arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pleases	please	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | Arm  yourselves | you |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | future | I | your horses |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition horse=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 4 | **please** | present | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  | in good time |  | tree rules |

<!-- .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:** «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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/23/48/)
- next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/23/50/)
- ↑ back to [Of Guy of Burgundy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/23/)