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title: Floripas said, "I advise you to smite off their heads with as little… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Floripas said, "I advise you to smite off their heads with as little delay as may be, for they have well deserved it. Who acts: Floripas, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 35

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Floripas said, "I advise you to smite off their heads with as little delay as may be, for they have well deserved it.

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**Who acts:** Floripas, you · **What happens:** say, advise, smite off, deserve · **To what, where:** you, heads, knights · **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, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Floripas, you), 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:pg75339:21:35
# text = Floripas said, "I advise you to smite off their heads with as little delay as may be, for they have well deserved it.
1	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	advise	advise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Floripas | you |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **smite off** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | knights's heads |  |  |  | with little delay | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with delay=Instrument |
| 4 | **deserve** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | knights *= knight* |  |  |  | delay *obj*; well *property* | 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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