Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 12
Since he was upon their track he had risen long ere 'twas day, and now came thither with the sun-rising.
Who acts: Sir, sun · What happens: be, rise, come · To what, where: Sir
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 (Sir, sun), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 track | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 track | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 track | cop |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 track | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 track | nmod:poss |
| 6 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 risen | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 risen | aux |
| 9 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ere | amod |
| 11 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 risen | obj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ere | punct |
| 13 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 day | compound |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ere | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 came | advmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 risen | conj |
| 19 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 24 rising | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rising | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sun | punct |
| 24 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 came | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sir | upon knights's track; knights = knight nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | past · perfect · passive | Sir | long ere twas day obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | now | thither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rise | gerund | the sun | 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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