Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 14
Now doth the adventure tell that Morien, that bold knight, rode the seaward way, and came safely to the passage of the ford nigh unto the open sea.
Who acts: Morien, ford · What happens: do, tell, ride, come, pass · To what, where: adventure, seaward way, passage · 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 (Morien, ford), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 doth | advmod |
| 2 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 adventure | det |
| 4 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doth | obj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 rode | mark |
| 7 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knight | punct |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 knight | det |
| 10 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knight | amod |
| 11 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Morien | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Morien | punct |
| 13 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | seaward | seaward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rode | conj |
| 20 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 passage | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 passage | det |
| 23 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ford | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ford | det |
| 26 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passage | nmod |
| 27 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 28 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 31 sea | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 30 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sea | amod |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the adventure | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | ride | past | Morien | the seaward way | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Morien not said here | the passage of the ford | unto the open sea; nigh, safely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to passage=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | pass | the ford | nom passage «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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