Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 42
He came riding, as one sore pressed, on that self-same road that led from Britain.
Who acts: Sir, self same road · What happens: come, press, lead · To what, where: one sore, self same road, Britain
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 (Sir, self same road), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | riding | riding | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pressed | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 pressed | mark |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sore | nummod |
| 7 | sore | sore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pressed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 road | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 road | nsubj |
| 12 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 road | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 self | punct |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 road | amod |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pressed | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 led | nsubj |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 road | acl:relcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Britain | case |
| 19 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Sir | riding property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | press | participle · passive | one sore | self same road that | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | self same road that | Britain | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from britain=Destination |
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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