Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 1
So rode they all three together till they came to a parting of the ways where stood a fair cross, and thereon letters red as blood.
Who acts: they, ways · What happens: ride, come, stand, part · To what, where: three, parting, fair cross
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, ways), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 three | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 rode | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 parting | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 parting | det |
| 12 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ways | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ways | det |
| 15 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 parting | nmod |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | advmod |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ways | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cross | det |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cross | amod |
| 20 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 red | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 red | cc |
| 23 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 24 letters | advmod |
| 24 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 red | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rode | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 blood | case |
| 27 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 red | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | they | all three | together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | they | a parting of the ways | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to parting=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | a fair cross | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | part | the ways | nom parting «act intransitive»: of=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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