Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 13
They had sought the shrine of a saint, with them they had money and steeds, beside other goods, as befitted folk of high degree.
Who acts: steeds · What happens: seek, have, befit · To what, where: shrine, money
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 (steeds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | aux |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shrine | det |
| 5 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sought | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 saint | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 saint | det |
| 8 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shrine | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | conj |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 steeds | cc |
| 16 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 money | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 goods | punct |
| 18 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 goods | case |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 goods | amod |
| 20 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 money | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 folk | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 folk | case |
| 23 | befitted | befit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 folk | amod |
| 24 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 degree | case |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 degree | amod |
| 27 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 folk | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · perfect | steeds = steed | the shrine of a saint | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | steeds = steed | money and steeds and other goods | with steeds = steed; as befitted folk of high degree | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||
| 3 | befit | participle | 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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