Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 9
When he came to the place he found Sir Lancelot sitting, binding up his wounds, which were many and deep.
Who acts: monster, Sir, wounds · What happens: come, find, sit, bind up, be, wound · To what, where: place, Sir, wounds
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 (monster, Sir, wounds), 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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sir | flat |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 found | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 binding | punct |
| 13 | binding | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 sitting | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 binding | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 binding | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 many | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 many | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 many | cop |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wounds | appos |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 deep | cc |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 many | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | monster | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | monster | Sir | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sir=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | Sir not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bind up | gerund | Sir not said here | monster's wounds | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | monster's wounds | many property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | monster's wounds not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | wound | monster | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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