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title: Swift as a swallow was Bayard, every stride was of thirty feet at th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Swift as a swallow was Bayard, every stride was of thirty feet at the least. Who acts: stride. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 106

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Swift as a swallow was Bayard, every stride was of thirty feet at the least.

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**Who acts:** stride · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Swift Bayard

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stride), 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:pg75339:7:106
# text = Swift as a swallow was Bayard, every stride was of thirty feet at the least.
1	Swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	stride	stride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Swift Bayard and thirty feet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | every stride |  |  |  |  | of thirty feet | tree rules |

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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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