Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 36
When the knights of whom I tell ye came into Arthur's land they saw there a castle, around which ran a swift water, broad and deep.
Who acts: I, knights · What happens: tell, come, see, run · To what, where: ye, land, castle, swift water · 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 (I, knights), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knights | det |
| 3 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 whom | case |
| 5 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knights | nmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whom | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 11 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 land | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Arthur | case |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 saw | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 24 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 water | amod |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 broad | punct |
| 27 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 water | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 deep | cc |
| 29 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 broad | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | I | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the knights | Arthur's land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | knights = knight | a castle | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | run | past | a swift water | which nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory |
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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