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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 77

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Then Floripas said to Gerard, "You excuse your fellow right courteously.

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**Who acts:** Floripas, Gerard · **What happens:** say, excuse · **To what, where:** Gerard, fellow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Floripas, Gerard), 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:pg75339:19:77
# text = Then Floripas said to Gerard, "You excuse your fellow right courteously.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	excuse	excuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	courteously	courteously	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Floripas |  | Gerard |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to gerard=Recipient |
| 2 | **excuse** *in a quote* | present | Gerard | your fellow |  |  |  | courteously *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme |

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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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