Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 42
The knights who came thither saw the folk as they fled with all their goods and their foodstuff, they deemed theirs was a lost cause.
Who acts: knights · What happens: come, see, flee, deem, lose, be · To what, where: folk, lost cause
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knights | det |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knights | acl:relcl |
| 5 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 folk | det |
| 8 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 fled | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fled | nsubj |
| 11 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 goods | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 goods | det:predet |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 goods | nmod:poss |
| 15 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 fled | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 foodstuff | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 foodstuff | nmod:poss |
| 18 | foodstuff | foodstuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 goods | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 deemed | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 deemed | nsubj |
| 21 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 22 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cause | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cause | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cause | det |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 cause | amod |
| 26 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deemed | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the knights | thither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the knights | the folk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer folk=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | knights = knight | with knights's goods and knights's foodstuff | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | deem | past | knights = knight | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | knights = knight | a lost cause | 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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