Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

That men thrust and smote at him troubled him little, therein was he like to his father, the noble knight Sir Agloval; he held parley with no man, but smote ever, blow after blow, on all who came nigh him.

Who acts: men thrust, Sir · What happens: smote, trouble, be, hold, blow, come · To what, where: Sir, parley, all

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 (men thrust, Sir), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 thrust	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thrust	compound
3	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 troubled	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 smote	cc
5	smote	smote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thrust	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smote	obl
8	troubled	trouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 troubled	obj
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 troubled	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
12	therein	therein	ADV	_	15 like	advmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 like	cop
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 like	nsubj
15	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 troubled	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 father	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 like	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knight	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 knight	det
21	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 knight	amod
22	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 father	appos
23	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 knight	appos
24	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Sir	flat
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 held	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 held	nsubj
27	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 troubled	conj
28	parley	parley	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 man	case
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 parley	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 smote	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 smote	cc
34	smote	smote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 held	advcl
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 smote	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 blow	punct
37	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 smote	conj
38	after	after	ADP	_	39 blow	case
39	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 blow	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 all	punct
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 blow	obl
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 came	nsubj
44	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 all	acl:relcl
45	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	46 him	advmod
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 came	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 troubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smote	infinitive	that men thrust not said here				at Sir	tree rules
2	trouble	past	that men thrust	Sir				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer little=Result
3	is	past	Sir				to Sir's father; like, therein property	tree rules
4	hold	past	Sir	parley			with no man	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parley=Theme
5	smote	infinitive	Sir not said here			ever		tree rules
6	blow	infinitive	Sir not said here		all	after blow		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
7	come	past		Sir			who nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 56