Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 32
Thus they journeyed till they heard true tidings of their lady, the queen; how that she was beset on all sides by the King of Ireland.
Who acts: matters, King · What happens: journey, hear, beset · To what, where: true tidings, scarce, sides
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 (matters, King), 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 | _ | 3 journeyed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 journeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 journeyed | advcl |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tidings | amod |
| 8 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lady | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lady | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tidings | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 queen | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tidings | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 beset | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 beset | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 beset | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 beset | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 beset | aux:pass |
| 20 | beset | beset | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 journeyed | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 sides | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sides | det |
| 23 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 beset | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 King | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 beset | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Ireland | case |
| 28 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 King | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | matters = matter | thus property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | matters = matter | true tidings of matters's lady and the queen | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | beset | past · passive | the King of Ireland | scarce | all sides | tree rules |
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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