Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 6
Morien's weapons were so strong; 'twas he led the vanguard, nor would he yield an inch when he began the strife.
Who acts: weapons, twas, Morien · What happens: be, lead, yield, begin · To what, where: vanguard, inch, strife
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 (weapons, twas, 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 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Morien | case |
| 3 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strong | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 strong | advmod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 twas | punct |
| 9 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 led | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 led | nsubj |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strong | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vanguard | det |
| 13 | vanguard | vanguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yield | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 yield | cc |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 yield | aux |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 yield | nsubj |
| 18 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 led | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 inch | det |
| 20 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 yield | obj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 began | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 began | nsubj |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 yield | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 strife | det |
| 25 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 began | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Morien's weapons | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | twas | the vanguard | Morien nsubj | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vanguard=Theme | |||
| 3 | yield | would | Morien | a inch | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent inch=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | Morien | the strife | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strife=Eventuality |
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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