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title: When the knights had finished their greetings, Floripas said to them… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the knights had finished their greetings, Floripas said to them, "My lords, will you promise me on your honour that you will help me to attain that which I desire?" Who acts: Floripas, knights, your. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 61

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When the knights had finished their greetings, Floripas said to them, "My lords, will you promise me on your honour that you will help me to attain that which I desire?"

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**Who acts:** Floripas, knights, your · **What happens:** finish, say, promise, help, attain, desire · **To what, where:** knights, greetings, Floripas, honour · **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, knights, your), 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:pg75339:21:61
# text = When the knights had finished their greetings, Floripas said to them, "My lords, will you promise me on your honour that you will help me to attain that which I desire?"
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	greetings	greeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive |  | the knights |  |  |  | knights's greetings and My lords *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Floripas | knights's greetings and My lords *not said here* | knights *= knight* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent greeting=Topic to they=Recipient |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | future | knights *= knight* |  | Floripas | your honour |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **help** *in a quote* | future | knights *= knight* | Floripas |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **attain** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Floripas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **desire** *in a quote* | present | Floripas |  |  |  |  | which *obj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |
| 7 | **greet** |  | knights *= knight* |  |  |  |  |  | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **honour** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: 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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