Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 38

There was not one of them but slew a Saracen, but Oliver they could not rescue, because they that had him in charge fled with all speed, so that the men of France could not by any means come up with them.

Who acts: one, cries · What happens: be, slay, not rescue, have, flee, not mean · To what, where: Saracen, body, charge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, cries), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 slew	cc
8	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Saracen	det
10	Saracen	Saracen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 slew	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rescue	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 rescue	cc
13	Oliver	oliver	SCONJ	_	17 rescue	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rescue	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 rescue	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 rescue	advmod
17	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rescue	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 charge	case
25	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obl
26	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 charge	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 speed	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 speed	det
29	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fled	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 could	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	_	37 could	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 could	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 men	det
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 could	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 France	case
36	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 men	nmod
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 rescue	advcl
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 means	advmod
39	by	by	ADP	_	40 any	case
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	41 means	obl
41	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 could	ccomp
42	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 means	ccomp
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 come	compound:prt
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 come	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	one of cries		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slay	past	one of cries not said here	a Saracen			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saracen=Patient
3	not rescue	could	cries = cry				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	cries = cry	body	charge	that nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	flee	participle		charge not said here		with all speed	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not mean	present	cries = cry not said here			by any	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	come up	infinitive				with cries = cry	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 38