Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 57
With that there came riding a company of the maiden's folk, who were fain to avenge her shame.
Who acts: folk, many · What happens: come, ride, be, avenge, shame · To what, where: company, shame
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 (folk, many), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 came | expl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 company | det |
| 7 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riding | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 folk | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maiden | det |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 folk | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 maiden | case |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 company | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fain | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 fain | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fain | cop |
| 16 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 folk | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 avenge | mark |
| 18 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fain | csubj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shame | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 avenge | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | there | with that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | a company of the maiden's folk | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the maiden's folk | fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | avenge | to-infinitive | many's shame | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | shame | many | nom shame «feeling 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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