Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 38
He saw a knight sitting upon the ground, in sore distress, naked and covered with blood; he had been brought thither to be broken upon the wheel, so soon as it might be made ready.
Who acts: head, knight · What happens: see, sit, cover, bring, break, make · To what, where: knight, sore distress, head, wheel
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, knight), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 knight | acl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 distress | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 distress | case |
| 11 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 distress | amod |
| 12 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 naked | punct |
| 14 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 distress | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 covered | cc |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 naked | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 blood | case |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 brought | aux:pass |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | conj |
| 24 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 23 brought | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 broken | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 broken | aux:pass |
| 27 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 brought | advcl |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 wheel | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wheel | det |
| 30 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 broken | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 made | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 soon | advmod |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 made | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 made | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 made | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 made | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 made | aux:pass |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | conj |
| 39 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 made | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | head | a knight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | a knight not said here | sore distress | upon the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location | |||
| 3 | cover | participle | a knight not said here | with blood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | head | thither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 5 | break | to-infinitive · passive | the wheel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: upon wheel=Location | |||||
| 6 | make | might · passive | wheel | ready, soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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