Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 73
Ere the day darkened came the king himself, in great wrath, and with him many knights who belonged to his household, and many other folk, warlike to behold, and came even to the castle.
Who acts: day, Ere, many knights · What happens: darken, come, belong · To what, where: Ere, King, great wrath, castle
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 (day, Ere, many 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 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 darkened | nsubj |
| 4 | darkened | darken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ere | acl:relcl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 himself | nsubj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrath | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wrath | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wrath | amod |
| 12 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 him | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 him | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | parataxis |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 knights | amod |
| 18 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 him | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 belonged | nsubj |
| 20 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 knights | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 household | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 household | nmod:poss |
| 23 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 belonged | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 folk | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 folk | cc |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 folk | amod |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 folk | amod |
| 28 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 belonged | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 warlike | punct |
| 30 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 folk | amod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 behold | case |
| 32 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 30 warlike | discourse |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 came | cc |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 belonged | conj |
| 36 | even | even | ADV | _ | 39 castle | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 castle | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 castle | det |
| 39 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | darken | past | the day | Ere not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ere=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Ere | King | great wrath | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wrath=Location | |||
| 3 | belong | past | many knights | to King's household; many other folk parataxis | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | many knights not said here | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location |
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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