Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 48
When Morien who was hard beset by them who stood there heard this, never might one hear in book or song that any man smote such fierce blows as he smote with the sword which he drew forth.
Who acts: Morien, hard beset, one, man · What happens: be, stand, hear, not hear, smite, draw · To what, where: hard beset, this, book, such fierce blows, sword
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, hard beset, one, man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 beset | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 beset | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beset | cop |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beset | amod |
| 6 | beset | beset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 When | nsubj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beset | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beset | parataxis |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 stood | advmod |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stood | conj |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 heard | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hear | punct |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 hear | advmod |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hear | aux |
| 17 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hear | nsubj |
| 18 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stood | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 book | case |
| 20 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hear | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 song | cc |
| 22 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 book | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 smote | mark |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 smote | nsubj |
| 26 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hear | advcl |
| 27 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 blows | amod |
| 28 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 blows | amod |
| 29 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 smote | obj |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 smote | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 smote | nsubj |
| 32 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 smote | advcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 sword | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sword | det |
| 35 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 smote | obl |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 drew | obj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 drew | nsubj |
| 38 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sword | acl:relcl |
| 39 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 38 drew | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Morien | hard beset | by comrades = comrade; who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | hard beset | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | participle | hard beset not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not hear | might | one | book or song | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | smite | past | any man | such fierce blows | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blow=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | smite | past | man | with the sword | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sword=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | draw | past | man | the sword | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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