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title: Nevertheless Fierabras entreated him to have patience, and, turning… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless Fierabras entreated him to have patience, and, turning to his father, would have persuaded him even yet to baptism. " Who acts: Fierabras, turning. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, with its depe
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 73

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Nevertheless Fierabras entreated him to have patience, and, turning to his father, would have persuaded him even yet to baptism. "

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**Who acts:** Fierabras, turning · **What happens:** entreat, have, turn, persuade · **To what, where:** doer, patience

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fierabras, turning), 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:pg75339:26:73
# text = Nevertheless Fierabras entreated him to have patience, and, turning to his father, would have persuaded him even yet to baptism. "
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj:pass	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	baptism	baptism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entreat** | past | Fierabras | doer |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | Fierabras *not said here* | patience |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to doer's father *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result |
| 4 | **persuade** | would · perfect | turning | doer |  |  |  | to baptism | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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