Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 2
With the dawning of the day were they of within ready, each man well armed and mounted on a good steed.
Who acts: they · What happens: be, mount · To what, where: good steed
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 (they), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 dawning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dawning | det |
| 3 | dawning | dawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ready | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dawning | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ready | cop |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ready | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 ready | mark |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 ready | case |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 armed | punct |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 armed | nsubj |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 armed | advmod |
| 16 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ready | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mounted | cc |
| 18 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 armed | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 steed | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 steed | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 steed | amod |
| 22 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mounted | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | with the dawning of the day; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mount | participle | they not said here | a good steed | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on steed=Destination |
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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