Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 74
And even as he came Gringalet knew his lord, nor would flee from him, but came towards him, and for very friendship seized him with his teeth.
Who acts: Sir, Gringalet · What happens: come, know, flee, seize · To what, where: lord, 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, Gringalet), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Gringalet | Gringalet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lord | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flee | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 flee | cc |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 flee | aux |
| 13 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flee | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seized | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 seized | cc |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 friendship | case |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 friendship | advmod |
| 25 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seized | obl |
| 26 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seized | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 teeth | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 30 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 seized | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Sir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | past | Gringalet | Sir's lord | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | flee | would | Sir not said here | from Sir | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | come | past | towards Sir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | seize | past | Sir | for friendship; with Sir's teeth | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for friendship=Beneficiary |
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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