Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 106
As they stood and spake thus, sudden they saw the blood of the knight who lay there dead, and which afore was stanched, leap forth afresh, and run crimson down the hall.
Who acts: men, knight · What happens: stand, see, lie, stanch, leap, run · To what, where: blood, afore, crimson, hall
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, knight), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | advcl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spake | cc |
| 5 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | conj |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sudden | punct |
| 8 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | conj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blood | det |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 knight | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 knight | det |
| 15 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blood | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 knight | acl:relcl |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lay | advmod |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lay | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stanched | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stanched | cc |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 afore | nsubj |
| 23 | afore | aforementioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos Typo=Yes | 25 stanched | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stanched | aux:pass |
| 25 | stanched | stanch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 saw | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 leap | punct |
| 27 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 stanched | conj |
| 28 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 29 afresh | advmod |
| 29 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 leap | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 run | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 run | cc |
| 32 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 leap | conj |
| 33 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 run | obj |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 hall | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hall | det |
| 36 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 run | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | men = man | spake conj; thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | men = man | the blood of the knight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the knight | there | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | stanch | past · passive | afore | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leap | infinitive | afresh property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | run | infinitive | crimson | the hall | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent crimson=Theme down hall=Trajectory |
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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