Sentence:  The way MacArthur <WSD>said</WSD> his line - if you had the recorded transcript of a professional linguist - would probably have gone like this : Primary stresses on emeralds and wish ; note pitch 3 ( pretty high ) on emeralds but with a slight degree of drawl , one degree of oversoftness . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  express in words