Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 11
And they who had brought him thither were of one mind that they should make a wheel, and break the knight upon it at the Cross by the parting of the ways whereof I have told ye afore.
Who acts: knights, I, ways · What happens: bring, be, make, break, tell, part · To what, where: knights, wheel, knight, Cross, ye · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, I, ways), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 11 mind | advmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mind | cop |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mind | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 mind | nummod |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mind | acl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wheel | det |
| 17 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 break | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 break | cc |
| 20 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brought | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 knight | det |
| 22 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 break | obj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 break | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Cross | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Cross | det |
| 27 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 break | obl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 parting | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 parting | det |
| 30 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 break | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 ways | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ways | det |
| 33 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 parting | nmod |
| 34 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 told | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 told | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 told | aux |
| 37 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 ways | acl:relcl |
| 38 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 told | iobj |
| 39 | afore | afore | ADV | _ | 37 told | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | knights = knight | who nsubj:pass; Sir obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | of one mind; thither property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | should | knights = knight | a wheel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wheel=Product | ||||
| 4 | break | infinitive | the knight | the Cross | upon shame; by the parting of the ways | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Patient | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | I | ye | afore, whereof property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | |||
| 6 | part | the ways | nom parting «act 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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