Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 41

Forthwith they betook them to fight, and dealt each other fierce thrusts, with mighty and strong strokes, so that one saw their blood stream out through the mails of their hauberk, and the sparks sprang out when the helmets were smitten till they seemed to glow even as doth hot iron when it be thrust into the furnace, and waxeth red from the fire; so fierce were the blows which each dealt to the other.

Who acts: feet, one, blood, sparks · What happens: betake, fight, deal, see, stream out, spring out · To what, where: men, other fierce thrusts, mails, helmets, furnace, hot iron · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, one, blood, sparks), 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	Forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	3 betook	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 betook	nsubj
3	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 betook	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fight	mark
6	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 betook	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dealt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dealt	cc
9	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 betook	conj
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 thrusts	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thrusts	amod
12	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thrusts	amod
13	thrusts	thrust	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dealt	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 strokes	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 strokes	case
16	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 strokes	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 strong	cc
18	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mighty	conj
19	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dealt	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 saw	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dealt	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 blood	nmod:poss
26	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stream	nsubj
27	stream	stream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	ccomp
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 stream	compound:prt
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 mails	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mails	det
31	mails	mail	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stream	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 hauberk	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hauberk	nmod:poss
34	hauberk	hauberk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mails	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sprang	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sprang	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sparks	det
38	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sprang	nsubj
39	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 betook	conj
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 sprang	compound:prt
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 smitten	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 helmets	det
43	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 smitten	nsubj:pass
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 smitten	aux:pass
45	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 sprang	advcl
46	till	till	SCONJ	_	48 seemed	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 seemed	nsubj
48	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 smitten	ccomp
49	to	to	PART	_	50 glow	mark
50	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 seemed	xcomp
51	even	even	ADV	_	53 doth	advmod
52	as	as	ADP	_	53 doth	case
53	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 glow	advcl
54	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 iron	amod
55	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 doth	obj
56	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	59 thrust	advmod
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 thrust	nsubj
58	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 thrust	cop
59	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 glow	obl
60	into	into	ADP	_	62 furnace	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 furnace	det
62	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 glow	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 waxeth	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 waxeth	cc
65	waxeth	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 betook	conj
66	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 waxeth	xcomp
67	from	from	ADP	_	69 fire	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 fire	det
69	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 red	obl
70	;	;	PUNCT	_	72 fierce	punct
71	so	so	ADV	_	72 fierce	advmod
72	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 blows	amod
73	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 blows	cop
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 blows	det
75	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 betook	obj
76	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	78 dealt	nsubj:pass
77	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	78 dealt	nsubj:pass
78	dealt	deal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	75 blows	acl:relcl
79	to	to	ADP	_	81 other	case
80	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 other	det
81	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 dealt	obl
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 betook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	betake	past	feet = foot	men = man			forthwith property	tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	feet = foot not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	deal	past	feet = foot not said here	each other fierce thrusts			with mighty strokes	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thrust=Theme
4	see	past	one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	stream out	present	feet's blood			the mails of feet's hauberk		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mail=Location
6	spring out	past	the sparks					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	smite	past · passive		the helmets				tree rules
8	seem	past	feet = foot					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
9	glow	to-infinitive	feet = foot not said here			the furnace		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	do	present	feet = foot not said here	hot iron				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Eventuality
11	is a	infinitive	blood	thrust				tree rules
12	wax	present	feet = foot not said here				red property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	is a	past		the fierce blows				tree rules
14	deal	participle · passive		the fierce blows	the other			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to other=Recipient
15	mail			feet's hauberk				nom mail «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 41