Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 71
He found by the castle moat the lord of that burg and many of his folk with him; when he had dismounted on the turf he greeted them courteously, and the lord answered "God reward ye."
Who acts: Sir, many, lord, God · What happens: find, moat, dismount, greet, answer, reward · To what, where: lord, turf, men, ye · 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 (Sir, many, lord, God), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moat | obl |
| 6 | moat | moat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lord | det |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moat | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 burg | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 burg | det |
| 11 | burg | burg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lord | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dismounted | cc |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dismounted | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 folk | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 folk | nmod:poss |
| 16 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 many | nmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 folk | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 dismounted | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 dismounted | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dismounted | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dismounted | aux |
| 23 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 burg | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 turf | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 turf | det |
| 26 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dismounted | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 greeted | nsubj |
| 28 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 turf | acl:relcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 greeted | obj |
| 30 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 28 greeted | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 answered | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 answered | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lord | det |
| 34 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 answered | nsubj |
| 35 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 reward | punct |
| 37 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 reward | nsubj |
| 38 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 answered | ccomp |
| 39 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 reward | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 reward | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Sir | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | moat | present | the lord of that burg | by the castle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dismount | past · perfect | many of Sir's folk with Sir | the turf | Sir nsubj | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | past | Sir | the turf not said here | men = man | courteously property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | the lord | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | reward in a quote | infinitive | God | ye | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
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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