Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 56

They made no further questioning, but armed themselves, and rode forth, as they who would waylay Sir Gawain, when his host had sent him on his way.

Who acts: man · What happens: make, arm, ride, waylay, send · To what, where: further questioning, man, Sir, host, way

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 (man), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 questioning	det
4	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 questioning	amod
5	questioning	questioning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 armed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 armed	cc
8	armed	arm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 armed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rode	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rode	cc
12	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
13	forth	forth	ADV	_	12 rode	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waylay	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 waylay	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 waylay	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 waylay	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 waylay	aux
19	waylay	waylay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 rode	conj
20	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 waylay	obj
21	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Sir	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sent	punct
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 sent	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 host	nmod:poss
25	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sent	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sent	aux
27	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 waylay	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sent	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sent	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	man	no further questioning			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset questioning=Product
2	arm	past	man not said here	man			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient
3	ride	past				forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	waylay	would	man	Sir		who nsubj	tree rules
5	send	past · perfect · passive		wise's host	wise's way	wise obj	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 56

The tree

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 56