Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 83
The good steed breasted the current, swimming as best it might and brought its master to the further side. '
Who acts: good steed · What happens: breast, bring · To what, where: current, master, further side
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 (good steed), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 steed | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steed | amod |
| 3 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breasted | nsubj |
| 4 | breasted | breast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 current | det |
| 6 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breasted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swimming | punct |
| 8 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 current | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 best | case |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 might | nmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 might | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 breasted | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 breasted | conj |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 breasted | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 breasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breast | past | the good steed | the current and swimming | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the good steed not said here | current's master | the further side | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent master=Theme to side=Destination |
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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