--- title: There was not one among them but wept and sobbed; there was not one… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: There was not one among them but wept and sobbed; there was not one but prayed, "Now, may God keep Roland alive till we come to the battlefield, so that we may strike a blow for him." Who acts: God, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:32:59 # text = There was not one among them but wept and sobbed; there was not one but prayed, "Now, may God keep Roland alive till we come to the battlefield, so that we may strike a blow for him." 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 5 among among ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 sobbed sob VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 expl _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 prayed pray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 25 Roland Roland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 till till SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 battlefield battlefield NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 38 mark _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 strike strike VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weep** | past | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sob** | participle | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is a** | past | | one | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pray** | past | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | may | God | Roland | | | now | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=Theme | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | present | we | | | the battlefield | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to battlefield=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **strike** *in a quote* | may | we | a blow | | | | for Roland | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/32/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/32/60/) - ↑ back to [How Roland Sounded His Horn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/32/)