Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 59
The maiden turned to her own folk, and betook her with that company again to her father.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: turn, betake · To what, where: own folk, many
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 (maiden), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 folk | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 folk | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 folk | amod |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 betook | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 betook | cc |
| 10 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 betook | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 company | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 company | det |
| 14 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 betook | obl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 betook | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 father | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 betook | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the maiden | many's own folk | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to folk=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | betake | past | the maiden not said here | many | again | with that company; to many's father | tree rules |
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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