Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 79
She rode a sorry hack, bare backed, and her matchless hair, which was yellow as silk, hung even to the horse's croup--but in sooth she had lost well nigh the half thereof, which that fell knight had afore torn out. '
Who acts: ware, matchless hair · What happens: ride, bear, back, be, hang, lose · To what, where: sorry hack, half, sooth, knight
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 (ware, matchless hair), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hack | det |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hack | amod |
| 5 | hack | hack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bare | punct |
| 7 | bare | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rode | conj |
| 8 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bare | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hair | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hair | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 12 | matchless | matchless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hair | amod |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yellow | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 yellow | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 yellow | cop |
| 17 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hair | amod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 silk | case |
| 19 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yellow | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hung | punct |
| 21 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 croup | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 croup | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 horse | det |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 croup | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 horse | case |
| 27 | croup | croup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hung | obl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 lost | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 lost | cc |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 sooth | case |
| 31 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lost | obl |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lost | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 lost | aux |
| 34 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 rode | parataxis |
| 35 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 nigh | advmod |
| 36 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 38 half | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 half | det |
| 38 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 34 lost | obl |
| 39 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 34 lost | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fell | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 fell | nsubj |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 fell | nsubj |
| 43 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 lost | conj |
| 44 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 torn | aux |
| 46 | afore | afore | ADV | _ | 47 torn | advmod |
| 47 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 fell | ccomp |
| 48 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 torn | compound:prt |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | ware | a sorry hack | ware's matchless hair obl | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hack=Theme | |||
| 2 | bear | infinitive | ware not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | back | participle | ware not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | ware's matchless hair | as silk; yellow property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hang | past | ware not said here | to the horse's croup | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | lose | past · perfect | ware | the half | sooth | thereof property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in sooth=Eventuality | ||
| 7 | fall | past | which nsubj; that nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | tear out | past · perfect · passive | knight | afore property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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