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title: After a while Floripas, being a woman of wise counsel, said to the k… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a while Floripas, being a woman of wise counsel, said to the knights, "This Lucifer that is now dead was a man much beloved by my father, who doubtless is even now waiting for him to come to dinner. Who acts: Lucifer, father. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 42

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After a while Floripas, being a woman of wise counsel, said to the knights, "This Lucifer that is now dead was a man much beloved by my father, who doubtless is even now waiting for him to come to dinner.

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**Who acts:** Lucifer, father · **What happens:** be, say, belov, wait, come · **To what, where:** woman, knights, dead man, dinner · **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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lucifer, father), 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:pg75339:22:42
# text = After a while Floripas, being a woman of wise counsel, said to the knights, "This Lucifer that is now dead was a man much beloved by my father, who doubtless is even now waiting for him to come to dinner.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	Lucifer	Lucifer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
35	doubtless	doubtless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
39	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | a woman |  |  |  | of wise counsel | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the knights |  | while |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to knight=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this Lucifer |  |  |  | now | that *nsubj*; dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | a dead man |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **belov** *in a quote* | participle |  | a dead man *not said here* |  |  |  | by my father | tree rules |
| 6 | **wait** *in a quote* | present · progressive | my father |  |  |  | now | doubtless *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **come** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Lucifer |  |  | dinner |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial\_Location |

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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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