Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 69
Now had they left upon the field Gringalet and certain other steeds, the masters whereof were slain or had fled afar.
Who acts: needs · What happens: leave, be, flee · To what, where: masters, field, afar
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 (needs), 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 | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 field | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 8 | Gringalet | Gringalet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 field | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 steeds | cc |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 steeds | amod |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 steeds | amod |
| 12 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Gringalet | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 masters | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 masters | det |
| 15 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | obj |
| 16 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 slain | advmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 slain | cop |
| 18 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 masters | amod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 fled | cc |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fled | aux |
| 21 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 slain | conj |
| 22 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fled | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | needs = need | the masters | the field | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent master=Theme upon field=Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | slain, whereof property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flee | past · perfect | afar | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme afar=Initial_Location |
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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