Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 64
They were in such force that they took King Arthur, who foresaw naught of this, and had but few folk with him, as he but went a-hunting.
Who acts: man, King Arthur, Arthur · What happens: be, take, foresee, have, go · To what, where: such force, King Arthur, naught, hunting
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 (man, King Arthur, Arthur), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 force | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 force | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 force | case |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 force | amod |
| 5 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 took | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 force | acl:relcl |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Arthur | compound |
| 10 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 foresaw | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 foresaw | nsubj |
| 13 | foresaw | foresee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Arthur | acl:relcl |
| 14 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 13 foresaw | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 this | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 naught | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 folk | cc |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 folk | amod |
| 22 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 folk | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 went | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 went | nsubj |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 hunting | det |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 a | punct |
| 32 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 force | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | such force | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | man | such force not said here | King Arthur | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument arthur=Destination | |||
| 3 | foresee | past | King Arthur | naught of this | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | man not said here | few folk with Arthur conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Arthur | a hunting | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme |
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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