Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 32
Thus did it fall out well for King Arthur, since he thus escaped, and held captive the king who had erstwhile made him a prisoner.
Who acts: land, Arthur · What happens: fall out, escape, hold, make · To what, where: captive, 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 (land, Arthur), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 fall | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 fall | compound:prt |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 fall | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Arthur | case |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Arthur | compound |
| 9 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 escaped | punct |
| 11 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 escaped | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 escaped | nsubj |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 escaped | advmod |
| 14 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 escaped | conj |
| 18 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 made | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | aux |
| 23 | erstwhile | erstwhile | ADV | _ | 24 made | advmod |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 king | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 prisoner | det |
| 27 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | past · do-support | land | for King Arthur; thus, well property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for arthur=Theme | ||||
| 2 | escape | past | Arthur | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | Arthur not said here | captive | the king obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme king=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | the king | Arthur obj; a prisoner xcomp; erstwhile property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |
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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