Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 5

Was ever such courtesy in this world, Oliver helping this pagan to arm, whom, being unarmed, he might full easily have slain, and the pagan having pity upon Oliver as not being his match in fighting and all the more when he saw that he had been wounded?

Who acts: Oliver · What happens: be, help, have, not be, see, wound · To what, where: such courtesy, world, pagan, slain, fighting, Oliver

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver), 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 courtesy	cop
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 courtesy	advmod
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 courtesy	amod
4	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 courtesy	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Oliver	punct
9	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 courtesy	appos
10	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 Oliver	acl
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 pagan	det
12	pagan	pagan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 helping	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 arm	mark
14	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 helping	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 unarmed	punct
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 unarmed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 unarmed	punct
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 unarmed	cop
19	unarmed	unarmed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 arm	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 full	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 full	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 full	aux
23	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 unarmed	parataxis
24	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 have	advmod
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 full	advcl
26	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pity	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pity	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pity	det
30	pagan	pagan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pity	amod
31	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 pity	amod
32	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 unarmed	conj
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 Oliver	case
34	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 pity	nmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	39 match	case
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 match	advmod
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 match	cop
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 match	nmod:poss
39	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pity	nmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 fighting	case
41	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 match	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 wounded	cc
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 more	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 more	det
45	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 wounded	advmod
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	48 saw	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 saw	nsubj
48	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 wounded	advcl
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 wounded	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 wounded	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 wounded	aux
52	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 wounded	aux:pass
53	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 match	conj
54	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 courtesy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		such courtesy	this world	ever	Oliver appos	tree rules
2	help	gerund	Oliver not said here	this pagan			arm obl	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pagan=Beneficiary
3	is	gerund					arm obl; the pagan having pity upon Oliver conj; unarmed property	tree rules
4	have	present		slain			easily property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slain=Patient
5	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not is	gerund			fighting		as Oliver's match; Oliver nmod:poss	tree rules
7	see	past	Oliver					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	wound	past · perfect · passive		Oliver				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 5

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 5