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

After a while Floripas, being a woman of wise counsel, said to the knights, "This Lucifer that is now dead was a man much beloved by my father, who doubtless is even now waiting for him to come to dinner.

Who acts: Lucifer, father · What happens: be, say, belov, wait, come · To what, where: woman, knights, dead man, dinner · 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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lucifer, father), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
4	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 while	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 woman	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 woman	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Floripas	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 counsel	case
10	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 counsel	amod
11	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 while	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 knights	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 knights	det
16	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dead	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 dead	punct
19	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 Lucifer	det
20	Lucifer	Lucifer	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 dead	nsubj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 dead	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 dead	cop
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 dead	advmod
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 man	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 beloved	advmod
29	beloved	belov	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 man	acl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 father	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beloved	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 waiting	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 waiting	nsubj
35	doubtless	doubtless	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 waiting	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 waiting	aux
37	even	even	ADV	_	38 now	advmod
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 waiting	advmod
39	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 father	acl:relcl
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 come	mark
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 come	nsubj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 come	mark
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 waiting	advcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 dinner	case
45	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 come	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		a woman				of wise counsel	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past			the knights		while		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to knight=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	this Lucifer				now	that nsubj; dead property	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	past		a dead man			now		tree rules
5	belov in a quote	participle		a dead man not said here				by my father	tree rules
6	wait in a quote	present · progressive	my father				now	doubtless nsubj	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come in a quote	to-infinitive	Lucifer			dinner			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location

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 the French Knights, sentence 42