Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 31
The morrow as the day dawned, and shed beauty over hill and vale, they rode forth together, and Sir Gawain the Father of Adventure with them.
Who acts: morrow, hill · What happens: dawn, shed, ride · To what, where: Gawain, beauty, hill
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 (morrow, hill), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 morrow | det |
| 2 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dawned | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 dawned | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dawned | nsubj |
| 6 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shed | cc |
| 9 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dawned | advcl |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shed | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vale | cc |
| 14 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hill | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rode | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rode | nsubj |
| 17 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dawned | conj |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 rode | advmod |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 rode | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Gawain | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Gawain | cc |
| 22 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dawned | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Father | det |
| 25 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gawain | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Adventure | case |
| 27 | Adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Gawain | nmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 Adventure | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past | the morrow | Gawain Sir of Adventure with hill | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shed | past | the morrow not said here | beauty | hill and vale | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beauty=Source | |||
| 3 | ride | past | hill | forth, together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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