Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 6
Erst when the service was ended came King Arthur to the knight as he lay, and said: "God give ye good-day, dear Sir Knight; tell me who hath wounded ye so sorely, and how came ye by your hurt?
Who acts: service, Erst, knight, God, ye, your · What happens: be, come, lie, say, give, tell · To what, where: King Arthur, dear Sir Knight, ye, knight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (service, Erst, knight, God), 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 | Erst | erst | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | nsubj |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 ended | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 service | det |
| 4 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ended | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ended | cop |
| 6 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Erst | advcl |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Arthur | compound |
| 9 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 knight | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knight | det |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 lay | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lay | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 give | nsubj |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 day | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 good | punct |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Knight | punct |
| 28 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Knight | amod |
| 29 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Knight | compound |
| 30 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 tell | punct |
| 32 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 give | parataxis |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 tell | iobj |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 wounded | nsubj |
| 35 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 wounded | aux:pass |
| 36 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 tell | ccomp |
| 37 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 wounded | obj |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 sorely | advmod |
| 39 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 36 wounded | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 came | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 came | cc |
| 42 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 came | advmod |
| 43 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 44 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 came | nsubj |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 hurt | case |
| 46 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 hurt | nmod:poss |
| 47 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 came | obl |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the service | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Erst | King Arthur | to the knight | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lie | past | knight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | knight not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | God | dear Sir Knight | ye | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | ||
| 6 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | knight | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | wound in a quote | present · passive | ye | who nsubj; sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer ye=Result | ||||
| 8 | come in a quote | past | ye | by your hurt | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hurt=Location | ||||
| 9 | hurt in a quote | your | nom hurt «state intransitive»: 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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