Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 77
He smote her many a time and oft with his shield as he would revenge himself upon her in unseemly fashion.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: smite · To what, where: truth, unseemly fashion
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 (Sir), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smote | nsubj |
| 2 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smote | obj |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smote | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 oft | cc |
| 8 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 shield | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shield | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 oft | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 revenge | case |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 revenge | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 revenge | aux |
| 15 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smote | obl |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 revenge | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smote | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fashion | case |
| 20 | unseemly | unseemly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fashion | amod |
| 21 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smote | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | Sir | truth | unseemly fashion | time | as revenge Sir Sir; upon truth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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