Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 42

But her purpose was to persuade her father with fair words so that he might bring all the Frenchmen together.

Who acts: purpose, father, Floripas · What happens: be, bring, purpose · To what, where: Frenchmen

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 (purpose, father, Floripas), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 persuade	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 purpose	nmod:poss
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 persuade	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 persuade	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 persuade	mark
6	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 persuade	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 words	case
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	amod
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 persuade	obl
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 bring	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bring	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bring	aux
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 persuade	advcl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 Frenchmen	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Frenchmen	det
19	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 bring	obj
20	together	together	ADV	_	16 bring	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 persuade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Floripas's purpose		with fair words; Floripas's father obj; persuade property	tree rules
2	bring	might	father	all Frenchmen	together property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument frenchman=Destination
3	purpose		Floripas			nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 42