Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 23
He had no weapon upon him, and there were within of his host's folk full five hundred men whom he saw to be armed.
Who acts: folk · What happens: have, be, see · To what, where: weapon, full hundred men
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 (folk), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 weapon | det |
| 4 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 were | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 folk | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 folk | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 host | nmod:poss |
| 14 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 folk | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 host | case |
| 16 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 were | obl |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 18 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hundred | compound |
| 19 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 men | nummod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 folk | nmod |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 saw | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 men | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 armed | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 armed | aux:pass |
| 26 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 saw | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | folk | no weapon | upon Sir | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient | |||
| 2 | be | past | folk not said here | there | within folk's host's folk full hundred men | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | folk | full hundred men | armed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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