Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 87
As he laid his hand on the saddle-bow, and thrust his feet into the stirrups and thought to rise in the saddle, the girths brake asunder, the saddle turned over the left stirrup beneath the horse, and left him standing.
Who acts: Sir, girths, saddle · What happens: lay, think, rise, break, turn, leave · To what, where: hand, saddle bow, saddle, asunder, left stirrup, Sir
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 (Sir, girths, saddle), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 laid | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 left | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bow | det |
| 8 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bow | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 saddle | punct |
| 10 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thrust | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thrust | cc |
| 13 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thrust | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 stirrups | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stirrups | det |
| 18 | stirrups | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laid | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thought | cc |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 rise | mark |
| 22 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thought | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 saddle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 saddle | det |
| 25 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rise | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brake | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 girths | det |
| 28 | girths | girth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 brake | nsubj |
| 29 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 rise | conj |
| 30 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brake | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 turned | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 saddle | det |
| 33 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 turned | nsubj |
| 34 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 asunder | acl:relcl |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 38 stirrup | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 stirrup | det |
| 37 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 stirrup | amod |
| 38 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 turned | obl |
| 39 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 41 horse | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 horse | det |
| 41 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stirrup | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 left | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 left | cc |
| 44 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 left | obj |
| 46 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 left | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Sir | Sir's hand | the saddle bow | into the stirrups; thrust and Sir's feet obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on bow=Destination | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Sir not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rise | to-infinitive | Sir not said here | the saddle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in saddle=Location | ||||
| 4 | break | present | the girths | asunder | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer asunder=Patient | ||||
| 5 | turn | past | the saddle | asunder not said here | the left stirrup beneath the horse | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent asunder=Theme over stirrup=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | leave | past | Sir | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 7 | stand | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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