Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 44
Then Sir Gariët gave courteous greeting to one whom he met, and asked who were this folk, and wherefore they fled thus in haste?
Who acts: Sir, knights · What happens: give, meet, ask, be, flee · To what, where: courteous greeting, one, folk, haste · 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 (Sir, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 greeting | amod |
| 6 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 gave | obl |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 one | nmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 whom | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 folk | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 folk | cop |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 folk | det |
| 18 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fled | cc |
| 21 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 fled | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fled | nsubj |
| 23 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 24 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 23 fled | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 haste | case |
| 26 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fled | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Sir | courteous greeting | one | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme to one=Recipient | ||
| 2 | meet | past | Sir | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | this folk | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | flee | past | knights = knight | haste | thus, wherefore property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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