Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 58
But when Morien heard this he waxed so wrathful that he drew his sword and rode among them where there was the greatest press, and slew there fifteen of the nobles who were fain to deny him his inheritance.
Who acts: Morien, greatest press, nobles · What happens: hear, wax, draw, ride, be, slay · To what, where: this, sword, fifteen, Morien
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 (Morien, greatest press, nobles), 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 | _ | 7 waxed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waxed | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 waxed | nsubj |
| 7 | waxed | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 wrathful | advmod |
| 9 | wrathful | wrathful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 waxed | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 drew | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drew | nsubj |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrathful | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rode | cc |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drew | conj |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rode | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 was | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rode | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 press | det |
| 23 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 press | amod |
| 24 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 slew | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 slew | cc |
| 27 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waxed | conj |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 slew | advmod |
| 29 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 slew | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 nobles | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 nobles | det |
| 32 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fifteen | nmod |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 fain | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 fain | cop |
| 35 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 nobles | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 deny | mark |
| 37 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 fain | xcomp |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 deny | obj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 inheritance | nmod:poss |
| 40 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 deny | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waxed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Morien | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wax | past | Morien | wrathful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Morien | Morien's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ride | past | Morien not said here | among Gawain | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | be | past | the greatest press | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | slay | past | Morien not said here | fifteen of the nobles | there | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | is | past | the nobles | fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | deny | to-infinitive | the nobles not said here | Morien | Morien's inheritance obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme inheritance=Eventuality | |||
| 9 | inherit | Morien | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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