Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 22
But 'twas their dread of Morien's mighty blows, and of Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain, and Sir Perceval, who, on the field, had brought many in sore terror and dread of death.
Who acts: twas, Matters, Morien · What happens: bring, dread, blow · To what, where: many, sore terror, twas, mighty blows, death
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 (twas, Matters, Morien), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 ' | cc |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 twas | punct |
| 3 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dread | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twas | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 blows | case |
| 7 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 blows | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Morien | case |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blows | amod |
| 10 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dread | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 brought | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Lancelot | case |
| 14 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 brought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sir | punct |
| 17 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lancelot | appos |
| 18 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sir | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sir | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Sir | cc |
| 21 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lancelot | conj |
| 22 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sir | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 field | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 field | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 field | punct |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 field | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 field | det |
| 28 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Lancelot | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lancelot | punct |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 brought | aux |
| 31 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 twas | acl |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 brought | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 terror | case |
| 34 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 terror | amod |
| 35 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brought | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 dread | cc |
| 37 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 terror | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 death | case |
| 39 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dread | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 twas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect | twas not said here | many | sore terror and dread of death | of Lancelot Sir and Sir and the field Lancelot Sir and Sir and the field Lancelot | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent many=Theme of lancelot=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | dread | Matters = matter | Morien's mighty blows | nom dread «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 4 | blow | Morien | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | dread | death | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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