Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 14
Here did they fall in with a company of robbers, who slew the good knight, and took his steed and his money, and all that he had.
Who acts: steeds, robbers, knight · What happens: fall in, slay, take, have · To what, where: good knight, steed
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, robbers, knight), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fall | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 fall | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 company | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 company | det |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 robbers | case |
| 10 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 company | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slew | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 slew | nsubj |
| 13 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 robbers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knight | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knight | amod |
| 16 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slew | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 steed | nmod:poss |
| 21 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 money | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 money | nmod:poss |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steed | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 had | det:predet |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 had | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in | past · do-support | steeds = steed | here | with a company of robbers | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | slay | past | robbers | the good knight | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | knight's steed and knight's money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | knight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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