Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 21
Then they asked the manner of the land, and whither led the roads which they saw before them.
Who acts: steeds · What happens: ask, lead, see · To what, where: manner, roads
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 manner | det |
| 5 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manner | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 led | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 led | cc |
| 11 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 led | advmod |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roads | det |
| 14 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 led | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 saw | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 roads | acl:relcl |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | steeds = steed | the manner of the land | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent manner=Recipient | |||
| 2 | lead | past | steeds = steed not said here | the roads | whither property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | steeds = steed | the roads | before sins = sin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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