Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 60
For it has been told that Floripas had great love for Guy of Burgundy, and was willing to be baptized if only she might have him to her husband.
Who acts: Floripas · What happens: tell, have, be, baptize · To what, where: devil, great love, Burgundy · 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), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 told | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 told | aux:pass |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | ccomp |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 love | amod |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Guy | case |
| 12 | Guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Burgundy | case |
| 14 | Burgundy | Burgundy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Guy | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 willing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 willing | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 willing | cop |
| 18 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 told | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 baptized | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 baptized | aux:pass |
| 21 | baptized | baptize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 willing | xcomp |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 have | mark |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 have | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 baptized | ccomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 have | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 husband | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 husband | nmod:poss |
| 30 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | devil | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Floripas | great love | for Guy of Burgundy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | willing property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | baptize | to-infinitive · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | have a condition, not said to happen | might | Floripas | Burgundy | to Floripas's husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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