Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 88
Thus came the two together, the Moor and Sir Lancelot; each had a great spear and brake it in two, as a reed, yet neither felled the other, but each abode upon his steed.
What happens: come, have, break, fell · To what, where: two, great spear, spear, other
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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 two | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Moor | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moor | det |
| 8 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Sir | cc |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Moor | conj |
| 11 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sir | flat |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 had | advmod |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spear | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spear | amod |
| 17 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brake | cc |
| 19 | brake | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brake | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 two | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 brake | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reed | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 reed | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 reed | det |
| 26 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brake | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 felled | punct |
| 28 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 30 felled | cc |
| 29 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 30 felled | advmod |
| 30 | felled | fell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 other | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 felled | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 abode | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 abode | cc |
| 35 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 abode | det |
| 36 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 felled | obl |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 steed | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 steed | nmod:poss |
| 39 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 abode | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the two | the Moor and Sir parataxis; thus, together property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location two=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a great spear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient | |||||
| 3 | break | infinitive | spear | two | as a reed | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | |||
| 4 | fell | past | the other | each abode upon Sir's steed obl; neither property | 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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