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title: She said therefore, "Father, give these knights into my keeping. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: She said therefore, "Father, give these knights into my keeping. Who acts: 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 43

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She said therefore, "Father, give these knights into my keeping.

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**Who acts:** Floripas · **What happens:** say, give, keep · **To what, where:** 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), 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:pg75339:21:43
# text = She said therefore, "Father, give these knights into my keeping.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | Father *vocative*; therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present | Floripas *not said here* | this knights |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | gerund | Floripas |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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