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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 132

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Only Alard stayed him, "Set not your hand against him, for that is against God's commandment."

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**Who acts:** Alard, that · **What happens:** stay, not set, be · **To what, where:** Reynaud, hand

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alard, that), 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:pg75339:5:132
# text = Only Alard stayed him, "Set not your hand against him, for that is against God's commandment."
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Alard	Alard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | Alard | Reynaud |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme he=Location |
| 2 | **not** **set** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alard *not said here* | your hand |  |  |  | against Reynaud | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme against he=Destination |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | for God's commandment; God *nmod:poss* | 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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