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title: Sortibrant said to him, "Let every man that is here present make him… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sortibrant said to him, "Let every man that is here present make himself ready for battle and let all the siege engines be prepared, and all the trumpeters stand prepared to blow a great blast on their trumpets. Who acts: Sortibrant, man, siege engines, trumpeters. A sentence of «Stories of Charlema
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 77

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Sortibrant said to him, "Let every man that is here present make himself ready for battle and let all the siege engines be prepared, and all the trumpeters stand prepared to blow a great blast on their trumpets.

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**Who acts:** Sortibrant, man, siege engines, trumpeters · **What happens:** say, let, be, make, stand, prepare · **To what, where:** Admiral, man, siege engines, great blast, trumpets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sortibrant, man, siege engines, trumpeters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:23:77
# text = Sortibrant said to him, "Let every man that is here present make himself ready for battle and let all the siege engines be prepared, and all the trumpeters stand prepared to blow a great blast on their trumpets.
1	Sortibrant	Sortibrant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	engines	engine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
26	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	trumpeters	trumpeter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
33	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sortibrant |  | Admiral |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | every man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | every man |  |  | here |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | every man *not said here* | Admiral |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | all siege engines |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | all siege engines *not said here* |  |  |  |  | prepared *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | all trumpeters |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **prepare** *in a quote* | participle | all trumpeters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 9 | **blow** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | all trumpeters *not said here* | a great blast |  | trumpeters's trumpets |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient |

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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.

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**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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