Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 24
To-day came this knight within our hold, which is sore broken down and ruined, and hath done me sore wrong.
Who acts: knight, hold, our · What happens: come, be, break down, ruin, do, hold · To what, where: me
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 (knight, hold, our), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 knight | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 9 hold | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hold | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sore | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sore | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sore | cop |
| 13 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hold | conj |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sore | xcomp |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 broken | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ruined | cc |
| 17 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 broken | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 done | cc |
| 20 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | parataxis |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 done | iobj |
| 23 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wrong | amod |
| 24 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 done | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this knight | day | within our hold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | our hold | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break down | participle | our hold not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | ruin | participle | our hold not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do | present · passive | me | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: i=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | hold | our | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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