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title: Then he leapt on Bayard's back, and made all haste to deliver Richar… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he leapt on Bayard's back, and made all haste to deliver Richard, Mawgis and Alard and Guichard following him with all the speed they could use. Who acts: Richard, haste, gallows. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 126

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Then he leapt on Bayard's back, and made all haste to deliver Richard, Mawgis and Alard and Guichard following him with all the speed they could use.

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**Who acts:** Richard, haste, gallows · **What happens:** leapt, make, deliver, follow, use · **To what, where:** back, haste, Richard, speed

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Richard, haste, gallows), 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:pg75339:8:126
# text = Then he leapt on Bayard's back, and made all haste to deliver Richard, Mawgis and Alard and Guichard following him with all the speed they could use.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Alard	Alard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Guichard	Guichard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leapt** | past | Richard |  |  | Bayard's back | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | Richard *not said here* | all haste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | all haste *not said here* | Richard and Alard and Guichard |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent richard=Patient |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund | all haste *not said here* | Richard |  |  |  | with all speed | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **use** | could | gallows | all speed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=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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