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title: Put your horses to their full speed, if you would come in time to he… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Put your horses to their full speed, if you would come in time to help him, and let a blast be sounded by every trumpet that there is in the army." Who acts: you, blast. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died, with its 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 33

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Put your horses to their full speed, if you would come in time to help him, and let a blast be sounded by every trumpet that there is in the army."

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**Who acts:** you, blast · **What happens:** put, come, help, let, sound, be · **To what, where:** horses, horse, blast, army

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, blast), 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:pg75339:34:33
# text = Put your horses to their full speed, if you would come in time to help him, and let a blast be sounded by every trumpet that there is in the army."
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	sounded	sound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | your horses |  |  | to Archbishop's full speed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Goal |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | horse |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a blast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sound** | infinitive · passive | a blast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by every trumpet | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: by trumpet=Location |
| 6 | **be** | present | a blast *not said here* |  |  | the army; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in army=Location |

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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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