Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 79
With that had the night fallen, and they who had come into the land set up tents and pavilions, and would lodge in the green-wood.
Who acts: that, knights, land · What happens: have, fall, come, set up, lodge · To what, where: night, land, tents, green wood
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 (that, knights, land), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lodge | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 night | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 had | parataxis |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 land | acl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 set | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pavilions | cc |
| 20 | pavilions | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tents | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lodge | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lodge | cc |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 lodge | aux |
| 24 | lodge | lodge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wood | det |
| 27 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wood | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 green | punct |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lodge | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 lodge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | that | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | participle | the night not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | knights = knight | the land | who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | set up | participle | the land not said here | tents and pavilions | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tent=Result | ||||
| 5 | lodge | would | the green wood | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=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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