Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 25
Thus did they ride until they had found the hermitage, and scarce had they come thither when they were ware of Morien with Sir Gariët and Sir Perceval, who came thither as at that time.
Who acts: twas, scarce, ware · What happens: ride, find, have, come, be · To what, where: hermitage, ware
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 (twas, scarce, ware), 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 ride | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ride | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ride | nsubj |
| 4 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 found | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ride | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hermitage | det |
| 10 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | scarce | scarce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ride | parataxis |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 had | parataxis |
| 17 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 ware | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ware | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ware | cop |
| 21 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Morien | case |
| 23 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ware | nmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Gariët | case |
| 25 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Gariët | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ware | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Sir | cc |
| 28 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Gariët | conj |
| 29 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Gariët | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ware | conj |
| 33 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 34 as | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 came | advmod |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 time | case |
| 36 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 time | det |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · do-support | twas = twa | thus property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past · perfect | twas = twa | the hermitage | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermitage=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | scarce | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | present | twas = twa | thither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | twas = twa | ware | of Morien; with Gariët Sir and Sir | tree rules | |||
| 6 | come | past | ware | thither | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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