Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 95
They who would harm him came upon him from every side, a great company and fierce, all thirsting for his life; there was a great clash of swords; they thrust at him with their spears.
Who acts: tin, Sir, great company, great clash, swords · What happens: harm, come, thirst, be, thrust, clash · To what, where: 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 (tin, Sir, great company, great clash), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 harm | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 harm | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 harm | aux |
| 4 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 harm | ccomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 side | det |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 company | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 company | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 company | amod |
| 15 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fierce | cc |
| 17 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 company | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thirsting | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 thirsting | advmod |
| 20 | thirsting | thirst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 company | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thirsting | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 harm | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 clash | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 clash | amod |
| 29 | clash | clash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 swords | case |
| 31 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 clash | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 thrust | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thrust | nsubj |
| 34 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 harm | conj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thrust | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 spears | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 spears | nmod:poss |
| 39 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 thrust | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 harm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harm | would | tin | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Sir | every side | upon Gawain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | thirst | gerund | a great company not said here | for Sir's life | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | a great clash of swords | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | thrust | past | tin | at Sir; with tin's spears | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | clash | swords | nom clash «event intransitive»: of=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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