Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 69
Even as the steed was aboard and all was ready for the crossing came Morien riding, blacker than any son of man whom Christian eyes had e'er beheld.
Who acts: steed, crossing, Christian eyes · What happens: be, come, have, behold · To what, where: man, e'er
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 (steed, crossing, Christian eyes), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 steed | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 steed | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 steed | det |
| 4 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ready | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ready | cop |
| 6 | aboard | aboard | ADV | _ | 10 ready | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ready | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 ready | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ready | cop |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crossing | det |
| 13 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ready | advcl |
| 15 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 riding | compound |
| 16 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blacker | punct |
| 18 | blacker | black | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 riding | amod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 son | det |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blacker | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 had | obj |
| 25 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eyes | amod |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | acl:relcl |
| 28 | e'er | e'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 29 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 e'er | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the steed | aboard, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the crossing | Morien riding nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Christian eyes | man | e'er obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | behold | participle | e'er not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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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