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title: Floripas also saw this thing, and cried to the Knights, "Oh, my lord… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Floripas also saw this thing, and cried to the Knights, "Oh, my lords, will you suffer Guy that is your comrade to be thus shamefully done to death before your eyes? Who acts: Floripas, Knights, Guy. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 46

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Floripas also saw this thing, and cried to the Knights, "Oh, my lords, will you suffer Guy that is your comrade to be thus shamefully done to death before your eyes?

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**Who acts:** Floripas, Knights, Guy · **What happens:** see, cry, suffer, be, do · **To what, where:** thing, lords, Knights, Guy, comrade · **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 (Floripas, Knights, 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:pg75339:23:46
# text = Floripas also saw this thing, and cried to the Knights, "Oh, my lords, will you suffer Guy that is your comrade to be thus shamefully done to death before your eyes?
1	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	Guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
29	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	shamefully	shamefully	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Floripas | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Floripas *not said here* | my lords | the Knights |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to knight=Recipient |
| 3 | **suffer** *in a quote* | future | the Knights *= knight* | Guy |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Guy | your comrade |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | the Knights *= knight* *not said here* |  |  |  | before your eyes | to death; shamefully, thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |

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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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