Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 99
Then they dismounted, and made fast their steeds before the door, and cried with a loud voice to those within: "Let us in!
Who acts: tears · What happens: dismount, make, cry, let in · To what, where: steeds, those, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tears), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dismounted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dismounted | nsubj |
| 3 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dismounted | parataxis |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 made | advmod |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 18 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 cried | obl |
| 22 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 cried | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Let | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Let | punct |
| 25 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | conj |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 Let | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Let | compound:prt |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | tears = tear | then | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | tears's steeds | before the door | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset steed=Product | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | tears = tear not said here | those | with a loud voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to that=Recipient | |||
| 4 | let in in a quote | infinitive | tears = tear not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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