Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 2
They straitly prayed their lord that he would make the knight known to them; how he came thither; who he was, whence he came, and whither he went, and what might be his name?
Who acts: They, many · What happens: pray, make, know, come, be, go · To what, where: lord, knight, them, name
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 (They, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prayed | nsubj |
| 2 | straitly | straitly | ADV | _ | 3 prayed | advmod |
| 3 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prayed | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prayed | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knight | det |
| 11 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 knight | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 known | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 came | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prayed | conj |
| 19 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 came | nsubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 came | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 came | cop |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 25 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 came | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 30 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 went | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 came | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 name | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 name | cc |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 name | nsubj |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 name | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 name | cop |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 name | nmod:poss |
| 39 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prayed | obl |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | They | their lord | straitly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | would | many | the knight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Product | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | the knight not said here | them = they | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | come | past | many | thither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | who nsubj; many nsubj; come, whence property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | past | many | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | might | many's name | what nsubj; many nmod:poss | 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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