Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 107
Sir Agloval, who deemed this passing strange, went, as best he might, to the gate, and his uncle the hermit followed him with no delay.
Who acts: Agloval, uncle · What happens: deem, pass, go, follow · To what, where: this, gate, hermit
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 (Agloval, uncle), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Agloval | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deemed | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 deemed | nsubj |
| 5 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Agloval | acl:relcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 deemed | obj |
| 7 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 deemed | xcomp |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 passing | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Agloval | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 best | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 best | case |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 might | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 best | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gate | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 gate | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gate | det |
| 19 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 followed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 followed | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 23 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 followed | nsubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hermit | det |
| 25 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 followed | nsubj |
| 26 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 followed | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 delay | case |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 delay | det |
| 30 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 followed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | past | Agloval Sir | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | gerund | Agloval Sir not said here | strange property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Agloval Sir | the gate | as best | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | follow | past | Agloval's uncle | hermit | with no delay | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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