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title: The Saracens that had charge of Oliver and the other knights did not… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Saracens that had charge of Oliver and the other knights did not halt till they came to a rich city, Aygremore by name. Who acts: Saracens, other knights, knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, with
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 1

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The Saracens that had charge of Oliver and the other knights did not halt till they came to a rich city, Aygremore by name.

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**Who acts:** Saracens, other knights, knights · **What happens:** have, not halt, come, charge · **To what, where:** charge, rich city, Oliver

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saracens, other knights, knights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:19:1
# text = The Saracens that had charge of Oliver and the other knights did not halt till they came to a rich city, Aygremore by name.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	halt	halt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Aygremore	Aygremore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Saracens | charge of Oliver |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **halt** | past · do-support | the other knights |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | past | knights *= knight* |  |  | a rich city |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **charge** |  |  | Oliver |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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