Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 103
And the messenger went his way to the twain, and told them how two knights stood without the gate. "
Who acts: messenger, two knights · What happens: go, tell, stand · To what, where: way, steeds · 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, two knights), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 messenger | det |
| 3 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 twain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 twain | det |
| 9 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 stood | advmod |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 knights | nummod |
| 16 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | advcl |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 gate | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gate | det |
| 20 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the messenger | messenger's way | to the twain | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the messenger not said here | steeds = steed | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | two knights | without the gate | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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