Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 3

One day this tyrant set up a tall pole in the public square, and put his own cap on the top of it; and then he gave orders that every man who came into the town should bow down before it.

Who acts: tyrant, man · What happens: set up, put, give, come, bow down · To what, where: One day, public square, own cap, top, orders, town

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tyrant, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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