Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 13
They took the king by main force; there was no man at his side but was glad and blithe might he escape with his life.
Who acts: knights, man · What happens: take, be, escape · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 force | case |
| 6 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 force | amod |
| 7 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | nmod |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 glad | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | cop |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 escape | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 blithe | cc |
| 20 | blithe | blithe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 glad | conj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 escape | aux |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 escape | nsubj |
| 23 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 escape | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | knights = knight | the king | by main force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Destination | |||
| 2 | be | past | no man at man's side | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | man not said here | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | man not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | escape | might | man | with man's life | 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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