Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 71
On the ninth day there came riding towards them a knight on a goodly steed, and well armed withal.
What happens: come, ride · To what, where: knight, goodly steed
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 day | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 riding | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knight | det |
| 11 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riding | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 steed | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 steed | det |
| 14 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 steed | amod |
| 15 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riding | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 withal | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 withal | cc |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 withal | advmod |
| 19 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 withal | amod |
| 20 | withal | withal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | a knight | a goodly steed | towards hands = hand | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knight=Theme towards they=Trajectory |
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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