Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 37
Then he rode swiftly upon the backward trail till he came once more to the parting of the ways; there found he carpenter-folk hewing and shaping timber, whereof they had made a great wheel.
Who acts: head, ways · What happens: ride, come, find, hewing, shape, make · To what, where: more, timber, great wheel · 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 (head, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 trail | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trail | det |
| 7 | backward | backward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trail | amod |
| 8 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | advcl |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 came | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 parting | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 parting | det |
| 16 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ways | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ways | det |
| 19 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 parting | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 found | expl |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hewing | nsubj |
| 24 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 folk | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 carpenter | punct |
| 26 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hewing | compound |
| 27 | hewing | hewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | ccomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 shaping | cc |
| 29 | shaping | shape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 hewing | conj |
| 30 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shaping | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 made | punct |
| 32 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 made | advmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 made | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 made | aux |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 hewing | acl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 wheel | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 wheel | amod |
| 38 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 made | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | head | then | upon the backward trail; swiftly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | head | more | to the parting of the ways; once property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | head not said here | there | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hewing | head | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | shape | gerund | head not said here | timber | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset timber=Product | ||||
| 6 | make | past · perfect | ways = way | a great wheel | whereof property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wheel=Product | |||
| 7 | 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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