Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 39
When they were thus made ready, armed and fittingly clad, they mounted their steeds as they who would ride on their way.
Who acts: fellowship · What happens: make, clad, mount, ride · To what, where: fellowship, steeds, way
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 (fellowship), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 made | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 mounted | advcl |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 armed | punct |
| 8 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ready | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clad | cc |
| 10 | fittingly | fittingly | ADV | _ | 11 clad | advmod |
| 11 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mounted | nsubj |
| 14 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 16 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mounted | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 ride | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ride | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 ride | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 ride | aux |
| 21 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mounted | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ride | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | fellowship | ready, thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | clad | past | fittingly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mount | past | fellowship | fellowship's steeds | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride | would | fellowship | fellowship's way | who nsubj | 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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