Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 35

Floripas said, "I advise you to smite off their heads with as little delay as may be, for they have well deserved it.

Who acts: Floripas, you · What happens: say, advise, smite off, deserve · To what, where: you, heads, knights · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Floripas, you), 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 advise	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 advise	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 advise	nsubj
6	advise	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 advise	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 smite	mark
9	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 advise	xcomp
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 smite	compound:prt
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heads	nmod:poss
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 smite	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 delay	case
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 delay	case
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 delay	amod
16	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smite	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 be	mark
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 be	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 delay	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 deserved	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 deserved	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 deserved	nsubj:pass
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 deserved	aux
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 deserved	advmod
25	deserved	deserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 deserved	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Floripas			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	advise speech: other in a quote	present	Floripas	you		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	smite off not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	knights's heads	with little delay	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with delay=Instrument
4	deserve in a quote	present · perfect · passive		knights = knight	delay obj; well property	tree rules

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, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 35