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title: As they sat at meat, came Floripas and said to them, "Tell me now; w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: As they sat at meat, came Floripas and said to them, "Tell me now; where is Guy of Burgundy, that was to be my husband? Who acts: Frenchmen, Floripas, Guy. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its dependency tree and th
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 2

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As they sat at meat, came Floripas and said to them, "Tell me now; where is Guy of Burgundy, that was to be my husband?

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**Who acts:** Frenchmen, Floripas, Guy · **What happens:** sit, come, say, tell, be · **To what, where:** meat, Frenchmen, Guy, husband · **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 Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frenchmen, Floripas, Guy), 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:pg75339:23:2
# text = As they sat at meat, came Floripas and said to them, "Tell me now; where is Guy of Burgundy, that was to be my husband?
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
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	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	Guy	Guy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Burgundy	Burgundy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  |  | meat |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at meat=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | Floripas |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Frenchmen *= frenchman* *not said here* |  | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Frenchmen *= frenchman* *not said here* |  | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Guy |  |  |  | of Burgundy | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Guy | my husband |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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