Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 69
They who rode with King Arthur were unarmed, and defenceless; their strength was not worth a groat.
Who acts: people, strength · What happens: ride, be, not be
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 (people, strength), 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 | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Arthur | case |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Arthur | compound |
| 6 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 unarmed | obl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unarmed | cop |
| 8 | unarmed | unarmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rode | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 defenceless | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 defenceless | cc |
| 11 | defenceless | defenceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 unarmed | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 worth | punct |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 strength | nmod:poss |
| 14 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worth | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worth | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 worth | advmod |
| 17 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rode | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 groat | det |
| 19 | groat | groat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worth | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | people | who nsubj | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | people not said here | with King Arthur; unarmed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not is | past | people's strength | a groat obj; worth property | 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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