Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 37
Then as Morien stood by the window, it seemed to him that he saw a knight come riding in great haste, on a horse tall and swift; he was well armed, and seemed a goodly knight withal.
Who acts: Morien, it, knight · What happens: stand, seem, see, come, ride, be · To what, where: Morien, great haste, goodly knight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morien, it, knight), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 stood | mark |
| 3 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seemed | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 saw | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seemed | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 knight | det |
| 17 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 19 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 come | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 haste | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 haste | amod |
| 22 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 riding | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 horse | punct |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 horse | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 horse | det |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 riding | obl |
| 27 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 horse | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 swift | cc |
| 29 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tall | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 armed | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 armed | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 armed | cop |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 armed | advmod |
| 34 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 seemed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 seemed | cc |
| 37 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 knight | det |
| 39 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 knight | amod |
| 40 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 seemed | obj |
| 41 | withal | withal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 seemed | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Morien | then | by the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | |||
| 2 | seem | past | it | Morien | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Morien | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | present | a knight | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ride | gerund | a knight not said here | great haste | on a horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | is | past | Morien | armed, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | seem | past | a goodly knight | withal property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme knight=Attribute |
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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