Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 49

As for Roland, though he swore that he would not turn back before he had delivered his comrades from captivity, yet he was constrained to depart from his purpose, for now the night began to fall, and no man knew by which way he should go.

Who acts: Roland, night, man · What happens: swear, not turn back, deliver, constrain, depart, begin · To what, where: comrades, captivity, Roland, purpose, way

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 (Roland, night, man), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 Roland	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 swore	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swore	punct
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 swore	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swore	nsubj
7	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 turn	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turn	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 turn	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 turn	advmod
12	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swore	ccomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 turn	advmod
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 delivered	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 delivered	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 delivered	aux
17	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 turn	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 comrades	nmod:poss
19	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 delivered	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 captivity	case
21	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 delivered	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 constrained	punct
23	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	26 constrained	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 constrained	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 constrained	aux:pass
26	constrained	constrain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 swore	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 depart	mark
28	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 constrained	xcomp
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 purpose	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 purpose	nmod:poss
31	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 depart	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 began	mark
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 began	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 began	nsubj
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 constrained	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 fall	mark
39	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 knew	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 knew	cc
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 man	det
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 knew	nsubj
44	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swore	conj
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 way	case
46	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	47 way	det
47	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 knew	obl
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 go	nsubj
49	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 go	aux
50	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 way	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 swore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	Roland				as Roland	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not turn back	would	Roland					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	deliver	past · perfect	Roland	Roland's comrades	captivity			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent comrade=Theme from captivity=Initial_Location
4	constrain	past · passive		Roland				vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Goal
5	depart	to-infinitive			Roland's purpose			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from purpose=Initial_Location
6	begin	past	the night			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	fall	to-infinitive	the night not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	know	past	no man				by which way	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	go	should	Roland	which way not said here				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
10	purpose		Roland					nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 49

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 49