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title: Orage said to the Admiral, "I will do your bidding with all speed, f… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Orage said to the Admiral, "I will do your bidding with all speed, for I can take in one day such a journey as other men take in four." Who acts: Orage, other men, your. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its depe
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 72

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Orage said to the Admiral, "I will do your bidding with all speed, for I can take in one day such a journey as other men take in four."

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**Who acts:** Orage, other men, your · **What happens:** say, do, take, take in, bid · **To what, where:** Admiral, bidding, journey, four · **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 Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Orage, other men, your), 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:pg75339:24:72
# text = Orage said to the Admiral, "I will do your bidding with all speed, for I can take in one day such a journey as other men take in four."
1	Orage	Orage	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	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	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 | Orage |  | the Admiral |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to admiral=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | future | Orage | your bidding |  |  |  | with all speed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | can | Orage | such journey |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 4 | **take in** *in a quote* | present | other men | four |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme |
| 5 | **bid** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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