Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 100
They harmed him most who stood afar, and thrust at him with spears to sate their rage.
Who acts: hounds · What happens: harm, stand, sate, rage · To what, where: Gawain, rage
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hounds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 harmed | nsubj |
| 2 | harmed | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 harmed | obj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 stood | advmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 harmed | advcl |
| 7 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thrust | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thrust | cc |
| 10 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 harmed | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thrust | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 spears | case |
| 14 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 harmed | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sate | mark |
| 16 | sate | sate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 harmed | advcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sate | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 harmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harm | past | hounds = hound | Gawain | with spears; thrust at Gawain obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | stand | past | who nsubj; afar property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sate | to-infinitive | hounds = hound not said here | hounds's rage | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument rage=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rage | hounds = hound | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: 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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