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title: But Floripas, saying they did ill to dispute among themselves, took… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Floripas, saying they did ill to dispute among themselves, took them into her lodgings, and shut to the door. Who acts: Floripas, men. 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 pragmati
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 56

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But Floripas, saying they did ill to dispute among themselves, took them into her lodgings, and shut to the door.

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**Who acts:** Floripas, men · **What happens:** say, do, dispute, take · **To what, where:** men, lodgings · **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, men), 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:pg75339:21:56
# text = But Floripas, saying they did ill to dispute among themselves, took them into her lodgings, and shut to the door.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	dispute	dispute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lodgings	lodging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Floripas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dispute** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among men *= man* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | Floripas | men *= man* |  | Floripas's lodgings |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into lodging=Destination |

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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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