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title: But Floripas said to them: "Now I see that the God whom you worship… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Floripas said to them: "Now I see that the God whom you worship is of little power, seeing that he suffers you to remain in such straits. Who acts: Floripas, Frenchmen, God, counsel. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 74

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But Floripas said to them: "Now I see that the God whom you worship is of little power, seeing that he suffers you to remain in such straits.

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**Who acts:** Floripas, Frenchmen, God, counsel · **What happens:** say, see, worship, be, suffer, remain · **To what, where:** Frenchmen, God, such straits · **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 (Floripas, Frenchmen, God, counsel), 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:pg75339:22:74
# text = But Floripas said to them: "Now I see that the God whom you worship is of little power, seeing that he suffers you to remain in such straits.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	worship	worship	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	suffers	suffer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	straits	strait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 |  | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Floripas |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **worship** *in a quote* | present | Frenchmen *= frenchman* | the God |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the God |  |  |  |  | of little power | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | gerund | Floripas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **suffer** *in a quote* | present | counsel | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **remain** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | counsel *not said here* |  |  | such straits |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in strait=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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