Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 93
Then they sprang to the gate, and opened it, even as their lord bade.
Who acts: tidings · What happens: spring, open · To what, where: gate, command
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 (tidings), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 gate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 opened | cc |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 opened | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bade | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 bade | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 bade | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bade | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bade | compound |
| 16 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | tidings = tiding | the gate | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to gate=Destination | |||
| 2 | open | past | tidings = tiding not said here | command | as tidings's lord bade | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
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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