Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 21
He pierced through my harness, as ye may see in many places, smiting through flesh and bone.
Who acts: knight, ye · What happens: pierce, see, smite · To what, where: many places, flesh
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, ye), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pierced | nsubj |
| 2 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 harness | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 harness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pierced | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pierced | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 places | amod |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smiting | punct |
| 15 | smiting | smite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 see | advcl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 flesh | case |
| 17 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smiting | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bone | cc |
| 19 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flesh | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | past | knight | through my harness | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through harness=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | may | ye | many places | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | smite | gerund | ye not said here | flesh and bone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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