Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 81

Thus the knight came riding where the high folk sat, and would fain have dismounted, but so sorely was he wounded that he might not do so.

Who acts: knight, high folk, folk · What happens: come, ride, sit, fain, dismount, be

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, high folk, folk), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 sat	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 folk	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 folk	amod
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 riding	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fain	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fain	cc
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fain	aux
14	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 dismounted	aux
16	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 fain	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wounded	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 wounded	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 sorely	advmod
20	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	23 wounded	advmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wounded	cop
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wounded	nsubj
23	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 do	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 do	advmod
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wounded	advcl
29	so	so	ADV	_	28 do	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	past	the knight	thus property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	gerund	the knight not said here		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	the high folk		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fain	would	the knight not said here		tree rules
5	dismount	infinitive · perfect	the knight not said here		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	folk	sorely, wound property	tree rules
7	not do	might	folk		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 81

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 81