Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 73
His shield and his armour were even those of a Moor, and black as a raven.
Who acts: shield · What happens: be
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 (shield), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shield | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Moor | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 armour | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 armour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shield | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Moor | cop |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 Moor | advmod |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 Moor | det |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Moor | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Moor | det |
| 11 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 black | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 black | cc |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Moor | amod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 raven | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 raven | det |
| 17 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 black | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Moor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | knight's shield and knight's armour | of that Moor | tree rules |
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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