Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 73
He arose from where he sat, and went towards his steed, and as he looked upon him his heart rose high within him, and he deemed that he was well-nigh healed.
Who acts: Sir, heart · What happens: arise, sit, go, look, rise, deem · To what, where: steed, Sir
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 (Sir, heart), 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 arose | nsubj |
| 2 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 where | case |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 sat | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arose | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arose | conj |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 steed | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 steed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 looked | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arose | parataxis |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rose | nsubj |
| 22 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | conj |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rose | xcomp |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rose | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 deemed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 deemed | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 deemed | nsubj |
| 29 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arose | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 healed | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 healed | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 healed | aux:pass |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 healed | advmod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 well | punct |
| 35 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 36 healed | advmod |
| 36 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 deemed | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Sir | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | Sir | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Sir not said here | Sir's steed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards steed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | past | Sir | upon man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rise | past | Sir's heart | within Sir; high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | deem | past | Sir | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | heal | past · passive | Sir | nigh, well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/7/73/