Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 9
They came that self-same road that cometh from that land that men here call Britain; they were both in seeming men of might, and the one had steed and armour that were even red as blood.
Who acts: steeds, self same road, men, one, steed · What happens: come, call, seem, have, be · To what, where: land, men, steed · Speech: someone speaks here
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, self same road, men, one), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 road | mark |
| 4 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 road | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 self | punct |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 cometh | nsubj |
| 9 | cometh | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 road | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cometh | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 call | obj |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 call | nsubj |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 call | advmod |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 land | acl:relcl |
| 17 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 call | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 seeming | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seeming | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seeming | aux |
| 21 | both | both | ADV | _ | 23 seeming | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 seeming | mark |
| 23 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 seeming | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 might | case |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 men | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 had | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 32 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 armour | cc |
| 34 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 steed | conj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 red | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 red | cop |
| 37 | even | even | ADV | _ | 38 red | advmod |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 steed | acl:relcl |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 blood | case |
| 40 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 red | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | steeds = steed | self same road advcl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | self same road | that land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | call | present | men | that land | here | Britain obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme britain=Result | ||
| 4 | seem | past · progressive | steeds = steed | men | both property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Attribute | |||
| 5 | have | past | the one | steed and armour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | steed and armour | as blood; red property | tree rules |
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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