Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 63
As he fared on a day to hunt in a great forest, as he was wont to do, there came upon him the greatest company of armed men that I may tell ye of, in these few words, who were all the King of the Saxons' men.
Who acts: Arthur, I, few words · What happens: fare, hunt, be, do, come, tell · To what, where: great forest, greatest company, few words, armed men, King · 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 (Arthur, I, few words), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 fared | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fared | nsubj |
| 3 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 came | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fared | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hunt | mark |
| 8 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fared | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forest | amod |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wont | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 wont | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wont | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wont | cop |
| 17 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hunt | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wont | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fared | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 came | expl |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 company | det |
| 26 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 company | amod |
| 27 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 men | case |
| 29 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 men | amod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 company | nmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 tell | obj |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 tell | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 tell | aux |
| 34 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 men | acl:relcl |
| 35 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 of | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 tell | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 words | punct |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 words | case |
| 39 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 words | det |
| 40 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 words | amod |
| 41 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 came | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 King | punct |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 King | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 King | cop |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 King | det:predet |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 King | det |
| 47 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 words | appos |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 men | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Saxons | det |
| 50 | Saxons | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 52 men | nmod:poss |
| 51 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 50 Saxons | case |
| 52 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 King | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare | past | Arthur | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | Arthur not said here | a great forest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Arthur | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Arthur not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come | past | the greatest company of armed men | this few words; there | upon Arthur | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | may | I | armed men | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | this few words | all King | of the Saxons's men | tree rules |
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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