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title: My brethren of France, quit you like men, be strong; stand firm that… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: My brethren of France, quit you like men, be strong; stand firm that you be not conquered." Who acts: brethren. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 11

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My brethren of France, quit you like men, be strong; stand firm that you be not conquered."

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**Who acts:** brethren · **What happens:** quit, be, stand, not conquer · **To what, where:** you, firm

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brethren), 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:pg75339:30:11
# text = My brethren of France, quit you like men, be strong; stand firm that you be not conquered."
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	quit	quit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	firm	firm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quit** | past | My brethren of France | you |  |  |  | like men | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | My brethren of France *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | infinitive |  | firm |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firm=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **conquer** | infinitive · passive |  | firm |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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