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title: Of a truth the man who should do battle for love of her would be wel… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of a truth the man who should do battle for love of her would be well inspired." Who acts: man. 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 53

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Of a truth the man who should do battle for love of her would be well inspired."

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** do, battle, inspire, love · **To what, where:** man, Floripas

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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 (man), 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:pg75339:21:53
# text = Of a truth the man who should do battle for love of her would be well inspired."
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | the man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **battle** | infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for love of Floripas | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **inspire** | would · passive |  | the man |  |  |  | of a truth; well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **love** |  |  | Floripas |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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