Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 64
The harness was in place, whereof I have told ye that it was so traitorously handled; then came forth the knight, who had arisen, and clad himself in fair robes, and descended the stairway.
Who acts: harness, I, knight · What happens: be, tell, handle, come, arise, clad · To what, where: place, ye, harness, knight, seneschal, fair robes · 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 (harness, I, knight), 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 harness | det |
| 2 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 7 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 told | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | aux |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 handled | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 handled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 handled | aux:pass |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 handled | advmod |
| 16 | traitorously | traitorously | ADV | _ | 17 handled | advmod |
| 17 | handled | handle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 told | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 came | advmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | parataxis |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 23 knight | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 knight | det |
| 23 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 arisen | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 arisen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 arisen | aux |
| 27 | arisen | arise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 knight | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 clad | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 clad | cc |
| 30 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 clad | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 robes | case |
| 33 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 robes | amod |
| 34 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 clad | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 descended | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 descended | cc |
| 37 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 stairway | det |
| 39 | stairway | stairway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 descended | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the harness | place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | I | ye | whereof property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | handle | past · passive | harness | traitorously property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the knight | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | arise | past · perfect | the knight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | clad | past | seneschal | fair robes | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | descend | past | the stairway | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stairway=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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