Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 57
They rode so long that they came thither; and when they of the land heard tell how that Morien had brought his father with him they assembled themselves together, and some were for refusing them entry into the kingdom, since they would fain keep the heritage for themselves.
Who acts: Gawain, some · What happens: ride, come, hear, tell, bring, assemble · To what, where: Morien, Gawain, kingdom, heritage · 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 (Gawain, some), 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 rode | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | advcl |
| 8 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 heard | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 heard | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 they | nmod |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | parataxis |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 heard | ccomp |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 brought | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 brought | mark |
| 20 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 assembled | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 assembled | nsubj |
| 28 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 29 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 assembled | obj |
| 30 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 assembled | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 refusing | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 refusing | cc |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 refusing | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 refusing | aux |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 refusing | mark |
| 36 | refusing | refuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 heard | advcl |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 refusing | obj |
| 38 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 refusing | obj |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 kingdom | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 kingdom | det |
| 41 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 refusing | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fain | punct |
| 43 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 46 fain | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 fain | nsubj |
| 45 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 fain | aux |
| 46 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 heard | conj |
| 47 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 fain | xcomp |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 heritage | det |
| 49 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 keep | obj |
| 50 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 themselves | case |
| 51 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 47 keep | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Gawain | long property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Gawain | thither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Gawain | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | Morien | with father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination father=Theme | ||||
| 6 | assemble | past | Gawain | Gawain | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 7 | refuse | past · progressive | some | Gawain | the kingdom | entry obj | tree rules | ||
| 8 | fain | would | Gawain | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | keep | infinitive | Gawain not said here | the heritage | for Gawain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heritage=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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