Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 89
Some came from the ditches where they had lain hidden, some out of bushes, some out of thickets, and some came forth from the hollow ways.
Who acts: Some, ditches · What happens: come, lie · To what, where: ditches, hollow ways
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 (Some, ditches), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 ditches | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ditches | det |
| 5 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 lain | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lain | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lain | aux |
| 9 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 ditches | acl:relcl |
| 10 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lain | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bushes | punct |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 bushes | det |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 bushes | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bushes | case |
| 15 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 some | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 bushes | appos |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 thickets | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thickets | case |
| 20 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 some | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 came | cc |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 ways | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ways | det |
| 28 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ways | amod |
| 29 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 came | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Some | the ditches | out some bushes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from ditch=Initial_Location out bush=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | past · perfect | ditches = ditch | hidden property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | some | the hollow ways | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from way=Initial_Location |
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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