Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 20
The hero, thrown into a love-trance by the sight of blood-drops on the snow, gives no answer to the challenge addressed to him successively by Segramore and Kay, and being rudely attacked by these knights overthrows them both.
Who acts: hero, answer · What happens: throw, give, address, attack, overthrow, sight · To what, where: hero, love trance, knights, blood drops
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, answer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thrown | punct |
| 4 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hero | acl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 trance | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trance | det |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trance | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
| 9 | trance | trance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrown | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sight | det |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrown | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 drops | case |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drops | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 blood | punct |
| 16 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sight | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 snow | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 snow | det |
| 19 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drops | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hero | punct |
| 21 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 answer | det |
| 23 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 addressed | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 challenge | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 challenge | det |
| 26 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 answer | nmod |
| 27 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gives | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 addressed | obl |
| 30 | successively | successively | ADV | _ | 27 addressed | advmod |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 Segramore | case |
| 32 | Segramore | Segramore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 addressed | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Kay | cc |
| 34 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Segramore | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 attacked | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 attacked | cc |
| 37 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 attacked | aux:pass |
| 38 | rudely | rudely | ADV | _ | 39 attacked | advmod |
| 39 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 gives | conj |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 knights | case |
| 41 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 42 knights | det |
| 42 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 overthrows | obl |
| 43 | overthrows | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 attacked | parataxis |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 overthrows | obj |
| 45 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 them | appos |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | participle | the hero not said here | into a love trance result; by the sight of blood drops on the snow | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into trance=Result | ||||
| 2 | give | present | the hero | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | address | past | no answer to the challenge | hero | by Segramore and Kay; successively property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | attack | gerund · passive | the hero not said here | rudely property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | overthrow | present | knights = knight | by this knights | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sight | blood drops on the snow | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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