Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 74
PAGE 142.--_King Arthur--held captive the king, who had erst made him a prisoner.
What happens: hold, make · To what, where: king, PAGE King Arthur
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: 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 | PAGE | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Arthur | compound |
| 2 | 142 | 142 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 PAGE | flat |
| 3 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 6 Arthur | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Arthur | punct |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Arthur | compound |
| 6 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 captive | punct |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 captive | amod |
| 9 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Arthur | appos |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 captive | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux |
| 15 | erst | erst | ADV | _ | 16 made | advmod |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 king | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 prisoner | det |
| 19 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Arthur | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | the king | King obj; a prisoner xcomp; erst property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |
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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