Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 80
He took the bridle in his hand and rode forth, the host nigh to him; and at his side went he who had betrayed him aforehand.
Who acts: God · What happens: take, ride, go, betray · To what, where: bridle, hand, host, God, side
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 (God), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bridle | det |
| 4 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 rode | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 host | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 host | det |
| 13 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 14 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 9 rode | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rode | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 side | nmod:poss |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 betrayed | nsubj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 betrayed | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 betrayed | aux |
| 26 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 went | ccomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 betrayed | obj |
| 28 | aforehand | aforehand | ADV | _ | 26 betrayed | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | God | the bridle | God's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bridle=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | ride | past | God not said here | the host | God | forth, nigh property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to he=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | go | past | God not said here | God's side | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | betray | past · perfect | God | host | who nsubj; aforehand property | 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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