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title: Then said Sortibrant, "Bid your horns and trumpets sound again, and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Sortibrant, "Bid your horns and trumpets sound again, and send your men to attack the Tower once more. Who acts: Sortibrant, horns. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 98

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Then said Sortibrant, "Bid your horns and trumpets sound again, and send your men to attack the Tower once more.

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**Who acts:** Sortibrant, horns · **What happens:** say, bid, sound, send, attack · **To what, where:** men, Tower · **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, horns), 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:pg75339:23:98
# text = Then said Sortibrant, "Bid your horns and trumpets sound again, and send your men to attack the Tower once more.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sortibrant	Sortibrant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bid** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sound** *in a quote* | present | your horns and trumpets |  |  |  | again |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your men |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 5 | **attack** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the Tower |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=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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