Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 11
My brethren of France, quit you like men, be strong; stand firm that you be not conquered."
Who acts: brethren · What happens: quit, be, stand, not conquer · To what, where: you, firm
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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quit | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 France | case |
| 4 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brethren | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brethren | punct |
| 6 | quit | quit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 quit | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quit | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 strong | punct |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 strong | cop |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quit | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stand | punct |
| 14 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 quit | parataxis |
| 15 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stand | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 conquered | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 conquered | nsubj |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 conquered | aux:pass |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 conquered | advmod |
| 20 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 firm | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stand | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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