Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 3
Therewith was the knight come to himself, and had taken his sword, and stood up as best he might.
Who acts: knight · What happens: come, take, stand up · To what, where: knight, sword
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), 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 | Therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 come | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sword | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 stood | compound:prt |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 best | case |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 stood | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 might | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stood | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the knight | knight | therewith property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | knight's sword | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand up | past | as best | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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