Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 68

Floripas, who for all that she was not a Christian woman, was of great courtesy and compassion, said to them, "Now I promise that I will take you out of this prison, only you must engage to do what I demand of you."

Who acts: that, Floripas, I, courtesy · What happens: not be, be, say, promise, take, engage · To what, where: Christian woman, courtesy, prison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Floripas, I, courtesy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 courtesy	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 that	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 that	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 that	det:predet
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 woman	nsubj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 woman	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 woman	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 woman	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Floripas	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Floripas	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 courtesy	cop
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 courtesy	case
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 courtesy	amod
17	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 compassion	cc
19	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 courtesy	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 courtesy	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 promise	punct
26	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 promise	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 promise	nsubj
28	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 said	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 take	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 take	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 take	aux
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 promise	ccomp
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 take	obj
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 prison	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 prison	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 prison	det
37	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 engage	punct
39	only	only	ADV	_	42 engage	advmod
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 engage	nsubj
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 engage	aux
42	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 take	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 do	mark
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 engage	xcomp
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 do	obj
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 demand	nsubj
47	demand	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 what	acl:relcl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 you	case
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 demand	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 courtesy	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 courtesy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	that a Christian woman	a Christian woman				Floripas nsubj	tree rules
2	is	past	Floripas					of great courtesy and compassion; compassion conj	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past			courtesy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
4	promise speech: promise in a quote	present	I				now		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take in a quote	future	I	courtesy		this prison			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent you=Theme out prison=Initial_Location
6	engage in a quote	must	courtesy						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
7	do in a quote	to-infinitive	courtesy not said here					what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	demand speech: request in a quote	present	I					of courtesy	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme

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.

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 68