Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 72

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 · What happens: say, do, take, take in, bid · To what, where: Admiral, bidding, journey, four · Speech: someone speaks here

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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Orage	Orage	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Admiral	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Admiral	det
5	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bidding	nmod:poss
12	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 speed	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 speed	det
15	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 take	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 day	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 day	nummod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obl
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 journey	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 journey	det
26	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 take	mark
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 men	amod
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 take	nsubj
30	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 take	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	30 take	compound:prt
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 take	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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

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.

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 72