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title: Then others proffered to go, as William the Scot, and Gerard, and Gu… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then others proffered to go, as William the Scot, and Gerard, and Guy of Burgundy, this last being willing with all his heart, but Floripas would not suffer it. Who acts: others, this, Guy. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Nor
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 14

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Then others proffered to go, as William the Scot, and Gerard, and Guy of Burgundy, this last being willing with all his heart, but Floripas would not suffer it.

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**Who acts:** others, this, Guy · **What happens:** proffer, go, be, not suffer · **To what, where:** Gerard, heart

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, this, 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:pg75339:24:14
# text = Then others proffered to go, as William the Scot, and Gerard, and Guy of Burgundy, this last being willing with all his heart, but Floripas would not suffer it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	proffered	proffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Scot	Scot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
16	Guy	Guy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Burgundy	Burgundy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proffer** | past | others | Gerard |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as William | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | this |  |  |  |  | with Guy's heart; willing *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **suffer** | would | Guy of Burgundy | heart |  |  |  | Floripas *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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