Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 47

They rode blithely in company, telling of many things that had chanced here and elsewhere, until they came to the seashore, where they took ship and crossed over; and when they had passed the water they came straightway to Perceval's uncle, who received them with right goodwill.

Who acts: Perceval, many things, uncle · What happens: ride, tell, chance, come, take, cross over · To what, where: company, seashore, ship, Perceval, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Perceval, many things, uncle), 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 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blithely	blithely	ADV	_	2 rode	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 company	case
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 telling	punct
7	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rode	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 things	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 telling	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 chanced	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 chanced	aux
13	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 things	acl:relcl
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 chanced	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 elsewhere	cc
16	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	14 here	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 seashore	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 seashore	det
23	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 took	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 crossed	cc
30	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 took	conj
31	over	over	ADP	_	30 crossed	compound:prt
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 passed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 passed	cc
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 passed	advmod
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 passed	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 passed	aux
37	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rode	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 water	det
39	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 straightway	compound
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 came	nsubj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 water	acl:relcl
42	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 passed	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	46 uncle	case
44	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 uncle	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 Perceval	case
46	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 passed	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 received	punct
48	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 received	nsubj
49	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 uncle	acl:relcl
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 received	obj
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 goodwill	case
52	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 goodwill	amod
53	goodwill	goodwill	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 received	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	Perceval		company	blithely property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	gerund				of many things	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chance	past · perfect	many things		here		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	Perceval		the seashore		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seashore=Initial_Location
5	take	past	Perceval	ship			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme
6	cross over	participle	Perceval not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pass	past · perfect · passive		Perceval		to Perceval's uncle; water straightway obj	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient straightway=Theme
8	come	past	Perceval	the water not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme
9	receive	past	Perceval's uncle	Perceval		with right goodwill	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 47

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 47