Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 59
The host who would follow them called to him his seneschal, who was cruel and cunning, and bade him carry his armour to their guest straightway, and deliver it to him as if he should ride thence as soon as he had arisen, and delay no whit.
Who acts: host, seneschal, bade · What happens: follow, call, be, carry, deliver, ride · To what, where: man, seneschal, host, armour, guest straightway, whit · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (host, seneschal, bade), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 host | det |
| 2 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 follow | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | aux |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | obj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 follow | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | obl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 seneschal | nmod:poss |
| 11 | seneschal | seneschal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cruel | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 cruel | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cruel | cop |
| 15 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seneschal | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cunning | cc |
| 17 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cruel | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bade | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bade | cc |
| 20 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | nsubj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bade | obj |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 armour | nmod:poss |
| 24 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 straightway | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 straightway | nmod:poss |
| 27 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 straightway | compound |
| 28 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 deliver | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 deliver | cc |
| 31 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | parataxis |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 deliver | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 deliver | obl |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 ride | mark |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 ride | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ride | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 ride | aux |
| 39 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 deliver | advcl |
| 40 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 39 ride | advmod |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | _ | 42 soon | advmod |
| 42 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 ride | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 arisen | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 arisen | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 arisen | aux |
| 46 | arisen | arise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 soon | advcl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 delay | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 delay | cc |
| 49 | delay | delay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 deliver | conj |
| 50 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 51 whit | det |
| 51 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 delay | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | would | the host | man | who nsubj | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the host not said here | host's seneschal | host | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | past | host's seneschal | cruel property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | host's seneschal not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | carry | present | bade host | host's armour | man's guest straightway | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent armour=Theme to straightway=Destination | |||
| 6 | deliver | present | armour | host | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 7 | ride | should | bade | soon, thence property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | arise | past · perfect | bade | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | delay | present | no whit | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent whit=Source |
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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