Darrow Examines Bryan

Mr. Malone—Your honor on this very subject, I would like to say that I would have asked Mr. Bryan—and I consider myself as good a Christian as he is—every question that Mr. Darrow has asked him for the purpose of bringing out whether or not there is to be taken in this court only a literal interpretation of the Bible, or whether, obviously, as these questions indicate, if a general and literal construction cannot be put upon the parts of the Bible which have been covered by Mr. Darrow's questions.Frame-set — Install the construal that fixes which moves are legal. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: meta the defense files the examination before the Court has ruled on it: the questions are for settling what construction the Bible gets in this room. The claim of Christian standing that answers the objection sits inside the sentence, bound in by dashes, so the purpose and the standing are asserted in one breath I hope for the last time no further attempt will be made by counsel on the other side of the case, or Mr. Bryan, to say the defense is concerned at all with Mr. Darrow's particular religious views or lack of religious views.Order — Direct another to act. function: directive · orientation: belonging · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward the hope-form carries a prohibition, and it is addressed to opposing counsel and to the witness by a lawyer for the other side misfire: misinvocation — counsel cannot direct counsel, and the Court's next utterance reserves every ruling to itself; the thing forbidden here is the last thing Bryan says before adjournment We are here as lawyers with the same right to our views.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: belonging · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward the roles are stated as a rule of the forum rather than as anyone's opinion of it I have the same right to mine as a Christian as Mr. Bryan has to his,Status bid — Claim relative standing. function: expressive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: outward the parity claim restated on its own, where the dashes do not bind it to anything else; this is the standing Darrow denies Bryan in the last sentence of the day and we do not intend to have this case charged by Mr. Darrow's agnosticism or Mr. Bryan's brand of Christianity.Promise — Commit oneself to a future act. function: commissive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward misfire: orientation mismatch — a commitment to keep standing out of the case, and the transcript prints the room's uptake in four words (A great applause.)

The Court—I will pass on each question as asked, if it is objected to.Frame-set — Install the construal that fixes which moves are legal. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: meta the bench fixes the procedure for everything that follows: legality is decided question by question, and only where an objection is raised. Two objections follow, both from Darrow, both against a speech rather than a question, and neither is ruled on

​Mr. Darrow:

Q—Mr. Bryan, do you believe that the first woman was Eve?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the first of forty paragraphs marked Q on this page; eighteen of them have no answer printed beneath

Q—Do you believe she was literally made out of Adam's rib?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Where Did Cain Get His Wife?

Q—Did you ever discover where Cain got his wife?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

A—No, sir;Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the answer proper, three words long I leave the agnostics to hunt for her.Status bid — Claim relative standing. function: expressive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: outward the labour of the question is handed back to the party asking it, named by their unbelief misfire: orientation mismatch — put as an answer about Cain's wife, it acts on the examiner's standing, and Darrow's next line treats it as no answer at all

Q—You have never found out?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

A—I have never tried to find.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—You have never tried to find?Rhetorical question — Ask in form, assert in force. function: directive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: outward the witness's own sentence handed back with a question mark on it; nothing is requested that has not already been supplied

Q—The Bible says he got one, doesn't it?Rhetorical question — Ask in form, assert in force. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: mixed · scope: narrow · target: outward the text is put in evidence and assent invited by a tag Were there other people on the earth at that time?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—You cannot say.Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta the answer this relays is not printed; the witness's reply survives on the page only inside the examiner's summary of it Did that ever enter your consideration?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—There were no others recorded, but Cain got a wife.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward a declarative sentence under the Q marker, and the witness answers it as though it had been asked

A—That is what the Bible says.Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta asked what happened on the earth, the witness answers what stands in the book; the authorship of the claim moves to the text, and it stays there for the rest of the day

Q—Where she came from you do not know.Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta the examiner writes the witness's answer into the record in his own words, the second time in three questions All right. Does the statement, "The morning and the evening were the first day," and "The morning and the evening were the second day," mean anything to you?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the question that opens the day's subject, and it quotes the text before asking about it

A—I do not think it necessarily means a twenty-four-hour day.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the first concession, and the witness gives it before he is pressed for it

Q—What do you consider it to be?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

A—I have not attempted to explain it.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward If you will take the second chapter—let me have the book.Order — Direct another to act. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the witness directs the room from the stand, and the stage direction that follows shows he is given the book (Examining Bible.) The fourth verse of the second chapter says: "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth, when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,"Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta the witness reads scripture against scripture, which is the one argumentative move he makes all day the word "day" there in the very next chapter is used to describe a period.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward I do not see that there is any necessity for construing the words, "the evening and the morning," as meaning necessarily a twenty-four-hour day, "in the day when the Lord made the heaven and the earth."Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—Then, when the Bible said, for instance, "and God called the firmament heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day," that does not necessarily mean twenty-four hours?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

A—I do not think it necessarily does.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—Do you think it does or does not?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the question is narrowed to a yes or a no, which is the form the witness never gives on this subject

A—I know a great many think so.Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: meta asked for his own view, the witness supplies a headcount misfire: orientation mismatch — the question is keyed to the world and the answer to where the witness stands among believers; the recorded uptake is Darrow asking twice more in the next four lines

Q—You think those were not literal days?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

A—I do not think they were twenty-four-hour days.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—What do you think about it?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

A—That is my opinion—I do not know that my opinion is better on that subject than those who think it does.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: belonging · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward the witness rates his opinion against the crowd's rather than against the text he has just read

A—No.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the one answer on the page with no question above it; whatever it denies was asked and went unprinted But I think it would be just as easy for the kind of God we believe in to make the earth in six days as in six years or in 6,000,000 years or in 600,000,000 years.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: belonging · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward "the kind of God we believe in" puts the answer in the first person plural, and the people included in it are not the man asking I do not think it important whether we believe one or the other.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward the literal day is declared immaterial by the man who came to Dayton for the prosecution

Q—Do you think those were literal days?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the literal day again, in the plainest words the examination has used for it

A—My impression is they were periods,Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the first positive form the answer takes; every earlier version of it denied that the days were twenty-four hours long but I would not attempt to argue as against anybody who wanted to believe in literal days.Promise — Commit oneself to a future act. function: commissive · orientation: belonging · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward the undertaking is given to anybody who wants literal days, and those people are in the gallery rather than at the bar

Q—Have you any idea of the length of the periods?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—Do you think the sun was made on the fourth day?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the first asking; the question is put three more times, and twice more as a demand, before an answer comes

Q—And they had evening and morning without the sun?Rhetorical question — Ask in form, assert in force. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: outward the contradiction is the whole of it: evening and morning are set beside a sun that does not exist yet, and the question supplies its own answer

A—I am simply saying it is a period.Decoupling-flag — Mark a claim as taken in isolation. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta the claim is fenced: a period, and no inference drawn from it misfire: scope mismatch — the fence does not hold, and the witness takes it down himself further down the page with "It might have continued for millions of years"

Q—They had evening and morning for four periods without the sun, do you think?Rhetorical question — Ask in form, assert in force. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: outward the same question with the fenced word inserted into it; the decoupling is refused by being used

A—I believe in creation as there told, and if I am not able to explain it I will accept it.Avowal — Constitute the self in the saying. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: reflexive the self is constituted as the one who accepts without explaining, which is an answer to a question about who is speaking rather than about the sun Then you can explain it to suit yourself.Order — Direct another to act. function: directive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: narrow · target: outward the work of explanation goes back across the rail to the examiner, the second time in this passage

Q—Mr, Bryan, what I want to know is,Mismatch-repair — Name the scope or orientation gap itself. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta the examiner names the gap before repeating the question: what has been said is not what was asked. The transcript prints "Mr," with a comma do you believe the sun was made on the fourth day?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

A—I believe just as it says there.Avowal — Constitute the self in the saying. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: reflexive belief keyed to a text rather than to the sun misfire: frame collision — one party is asking what is the case and the other is naming the authority he defers to; the recorded uptake is Darrow repeating his question word for word in the next line

Q—Do you believe the sun was made on the fourth day?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the third asking, identical to the second, and this time the examiner stops asking and starts reading

​Q—I am very sorry;Apology — Express contrition for a wrong. function: expressive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: narrow · target: outward misfire: orientation mismatch — the contrition is for a delay the speaker is about to cause, and the clause it introduces is about the witness's memory (low confidence) you have read it so many times you would know,Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: narrow · target: outward the witness's reputation for knowing the book is entered as the ground for reproaching him with not knowing it but I will read it again:Promise — Commit oneself to a future act. function: commissive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward kept in the next word "And God, said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years?Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: meta the examiner starts reading the source aloud, which is what the witness will demand of him further down the page and get

"And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth; and it was so.Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: meta

"And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; He made the stars also.Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: meta

"And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: meta the reading ends on the fact in dispute, and the question comes after it

Do you believe, whether it was a literal day or a period, the sun and the moon were not made until the fourth day?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the fourth asking, and the only question on the page printed without a Q marker; the clause "whether it was a literal day or a period" concedes the point the witness has been defending, so that the sun can be asked about on its own

A—I believe they were made in the order in which they were given there,Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward and I think in dispute with Gladstone and Huxley on that point—Status bid — Claim relative standing. function: expressive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: outward two names are produced and the sentence is cut off at the dash before either of them can be attached to a claim

Q—Cannot you answer my question?Mismatch-repair — Name the scope or orientation gap itself. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta the repair is put in the interrogative, which is the courtroom's own device for saying that an answer was not one

A—I prefer to agree with Gladstone.Surrogation — Let a token stand for the substance it once indexed. function: assertive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: outward the name carries the position; agreeing with Gladstone stands in for whatever Gladstone argued, and what Gladstone argued is never said

Q—I do not care about Gladstone.Frame-break — Collapse the operative frame. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: meta six words end the frame in which naming an authority counts as answering; the Court is not asked to rule and does not

A—Then prefer to agree with whoever you please.Order — Direct another to act. function: directive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: narrow · target: outward the choosing is returned to the examiner; the third time the witness hands the work of the question back to the man asking it

Q—Can not you answer my question?Mismatch-repair — Name the scope or orientation gap itself. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta the same repair four lines later, and the transcript spells the first one "Cannot" and this one "Can not"

A—I have answered it.Mismatch-repair — Name the scope or orientation gap itself. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta the counter-repair: the gap is granted and located in the hearing rather than in the answering I believe that it was made on the fourth day, in the fourth day.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the direct answer, four askings and two demands after the question was first put, and the preposition changes inside it — "on the fourth day, in the fourth day" — which is the difference between a day the sun was made on and a period it was made within

Q—And they had the evening and the morning before that time for three days or three periods.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the inference the witness fenced off is stated flat, under the Q marker, by the examiner All right, that settles it.Declaration — Bring a state into being by saying so. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward misfire: misinvocation — nothing in the room is settled by anyone except the Court, and the same sentence goes on questioning the point it has just closed Now, if you call those periods, they may have been a very long time.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward

Q—The creation might have been going on for a very long time?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward

A—It might have continued for millions of years.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward the wide reading, given without pressure and in the witness's own measure; the fence he built round "a period" comes down in the mouth that built it

Q—Yes. All right. Do you believe the story of the temptation of Eve by the serpent?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—Do you believe that after Eve ate the apple, or gave it to Adam, whichever way it was, that God cursed Eve, and that time decreed that all womankind thenceforth and forever should suffer the pains of childbirth in the reproduction of the earth?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward the question is built out of the examiner's paraphrase, which is the thing the next answers refuse

A—I believe what it says,Avowal — Constitute the self in the saying. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: reflexive and I believe the fact as fully———Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward cut off at three em dashes, the longest interruption the volume marks anywhere in this passage

Q—That is what it says, doesn't it?Rhetorical question — Ask in form, assert in force. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: mixed · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—And for that reason, every woman born of woman, who has to carry on the race, the reason they have childbirth pains is because Eve tempted Adam in the Garden of Eden.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward the paraphrase is put into the record as testimony rather than as a question, and the answer that follows rules it out of order

A—I will believe just what the Bible says.Avowal — Constitute the self in the saying. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: reflexive the future tense turns a state into a standing rule: what he will believe is settled in advance of being asked I ask to put that in the language of the Bible, for I prefer that to your language.Context-injection — Insist the surround is part of the claim. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: meta the wording is declared part of what is being affirmed, so that a paraphrase of Genesis becomes a different proposition from Genesis. This is the mirror of the fence he put round "a period" — narrowing when an inference threatens, widening when a paraphrase does Read the BibleOrder — Direct another to act. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: mixed · scope: narrow · target: outward the witness sets the examiner's procedure in three words and I will answer.Promise — Commit oneself to a future act. function: commissive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward answering is made conditional on the source being read aloud first, and the examiner reads from the source three times in the lines that follow

Q—All right, I will do that:Promise — Commit oneself to a future act. function: commissive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the condition is accepted without a ruling being sought, and from here the examiner reads before he asks "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman"—that is referring to the serpent?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the transcript's dash fuses the reading to the question, so the quotation and the demand for assent arrive as one act

Q—(Reading) "and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: meta That is right, is it?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward four words asking whether the passage read is the passage meant; no answer is printed to this or to the two questions after it

Q—And you believe that came about because Eve tempted Adam to eat the fruit?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—And you believe that is the reason that God made the serpent to go on his belly after he tempted Eve?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Bryan Insists on Bible Being Quoted Verbatim.

A—I believe the Bible as it is,Avowal — Constitute the self in the saying. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: reflexive and I do not permit you to put your language in the place of the ​language of the Almighty.Declaration — Bring a state into being by saying so. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the witness rules on the form of questions misfire: misinvocation — the Court reserved that power in its one ruling of the day, and a witness holds no part of it; the transcript then shows the ruling taking effect anyway, because the examiner's next words are "I will read it to you from the Bible" You read that Bible and ask me questions, and I will answer them.Order — Direct another to act. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: mixed · scope: narrow · target: outward the order carries its own consideration: obedience buys answers I will not answer your questions in your language.Promise — Commit oneself to a future act. function: commissive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward a commitment to withhold answers, made by a witness under examination, and nobody asks the bench about it

Q—I will read it to you from the Bible:Promise — Commit oneself to a future act. function: commissive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the compliance that shows the witness's ruling took effect "And the Lord God said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life."Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: meta Do you think that is why the serpent is compelled to crawl upon its belly?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—Have you any idea how the snake went before that time?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—Do you know whether he walked on his tail or not?Rhetorical question — Ask in form, assert in force. function: directive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: outward misfire: orientation mismatch — put as a request for information no witness could hold, it plays to the gallery, and the transcript prints "(Laughter in audience)" after the answer rather than after the question

A—No, sir. I have no way to know.Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the witness answers the question as asked, and the room laughs at the answer (Laughter in audience).

Q—Now, you refer to the cloud that was put in the heaven after the flood, the rainbow.Report — Relay another's utterance. function: assertive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta testimony from earlier in the day, relayed by the examiner; the words being relayed are outside this passage, so the page holds the uptake without the utterance Do you believe in that?Question — Request information. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward

Q—-All right, Mr. Bryan, I will read it for you.Promise — Commit oneself to a future act. function: commissive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the last thing the examiner gets to say inside the question form, and the marker over it is the one malformed marker on the page: "Q—-". The reading it promises never happens

Mr. Bryan—Your honor, I think I can shorten this testimony.Frame-break — Collapse the operative frame. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: meta the witness turns from the examiner to the bench and proposes to stop answering question by question; from here to adjournment nobody asks anything The only purpose Mr. Darrow has is to slur at the Bible,Frame-set — Install the construal that fixes which moves are legal. function: declaration · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: meta the examination is filed a second time, from the stand, and the purpose named is the reverse of the one Malone named to the same bench at the head of this passage but I will answer his question. I will answer it all at once,Promise — Commit oneself to a future act. function: commissive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward "all at once" is the trade being offered: the answers in a block, in place of the sequence the examiner controls and I have no objection in the world,Assertion — State that something is the case. function: assertive · orientation: belonging · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the objection is the remedy the Court reserved at the top of the passage, and the witness names it in the act of declining to make one I want the world to know that this man, who does not believe in a God, is trying to use a court in Tennessee—Status bid — Claim relative standing. function: expressive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: outward the addressee jumps past the bench to the world, and the examiner is placed by his unbelief — which is the move Malone prohibited in this passage's opening paragraph, refused by the man it named

Mr. Darrow—I object to that.Order — Direct another to act. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta misfire: frame collision — the Court's frame covers questions objected to, and what is objected to here is a speech; no ruling issues, and the next line is marked "(Continuing)"

Mr. Bryan—(Continuing) to slur at it,Status bid — Claim relative standing. function: expressive · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: outward the sentence resumes across the objection; "(Continuing)" is the court reporter's word, and it is the whole of the answer the objection receives and while it will require time, I am willing to take it.Promise — Commit oneself to a future act. function: commissive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: wide · target: outward the witness commits the court's calendar as well as his own

Mr. Darrow—I object to your statement.Order — Direct another to act. function: directive · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: meta the second objection, again against a statement rather than a question, again unruled I am exempting you on your fool ideas that no intelligent Christian on earth believes.Frame-break — Collapse the operative frame. function: declaration · orientation: belonging · motive: mixed · scope: wide · target: meta the question form is gone and the volume prints the verb as "exempting" misfire: frame collision — the examination frame is collapsed by the examiner after the witness has already left it, and the sentence closes by denying Bryan the standing Malone claimed for himself in this passage's first line

The Court—Court is adjourned until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.Declaration — Bring a state into being by saying so. function: declaration · orientation: reality · motive: cooperative · scope: narrow · target: outward the one act in the passage that takes effect on the saying and draws no objection, no counter-question and no applause; the office, the words and the hour are all present