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title: But her purpose was to persuade her father with fair words so that h… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But her purpose was to persuade her father with fair words so that he might bring all the Frenchmen together. Who acts: purpose, father, Floripas. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 42

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But her purpose was to persuade her father with fair words so that he might bring all the Frenchmen together.

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**Who acts:** purpose, father, Floripas · **What happens:** be, bring, purpose · **To what, where:** Frenchmen

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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 (purpose, father, Floripas), 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:pg75339:21:42
# text = But her purpose was to persuade her father with fair words so that he might bring all the Frenchmen together.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Floripas's purpose |  |  |  |  | with fair words; Floripas's father *obj*; persuade *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | might | father |  | all Frenchmen |  |  | together *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument frenchman=Destination |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | Floripas |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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