Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 1
Thus Sir Lancelot rode so far into the land that he came nigh to the place where he had heard that the fearful beast had made its lair.
Who acts: Thus · What happens: ride, come, hear, make · To what, where: land, place, fearful beast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thus), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thus | flat |
| 3 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 rode | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 land | acl:relcl |
| 13 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 heard | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | aux |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 made | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beast | det |
| 23 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beast | amod |
| 24 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 made | aux |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 heard | ccomp |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 lair | nmod:poss |
| 28 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Thus | the land | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into land=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | Thus | the land | the place | nigh property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | Thus | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | the fearful beast | beast's lair obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary lair=Product |
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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