Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 19
When the fight was ended King Arthur's men had taken captive much folk and the King of Ireland.
Who acts: fight, ended men · What happens: be, take · To what, where: captive folk
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 (fight, ended men), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | cop |
| 5 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Arthur | compound |
| 7 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 men | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Arthur | case |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 folk | amod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 folk | advmod |
| 14 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 King | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 folk | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Ireland | case |
| 19 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 King | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fight | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | King Arthur's ended men | captive folk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=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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