--- title: She rode a sorry hack, bare backed, and her matchless hair, which wa… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: She rode a sorry hack, bare backed, and her matchless hair, which was yellow as silk, hung even to the horse's croup--but in sooth she had lost well nigh the half thereof, which that fell knight had afore torn out. ' Who acts: ware, matchless hair. 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' **Who acts:** ware, matchless hair · **What happens:** ride, bear, back, be, hang, lose · **To what, where:** sorry hack, half, sooth, knight This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ware, matchless hair), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:4:79 # text = She rode a sorry hack, bare backed, and her matchless hair, which was yellow as silk, hung even to the horse's croup--but in sooth she had lost well nigh the half thereof, which that fell knight had afore torn out. ' 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 hack hack NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bare bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 8 backed back VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 matchless matchless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 croup croup NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 sooth sooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 35 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 nigh nigh ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 34 obl _ _ 39 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 42 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 43 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 44 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 45 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 afore afore ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 torn tear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 ccomp _ _ 48 out out ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 50 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ride** | past | ware | a sorry hack | | | | ware's matchless hair *obl* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hack=Theme | | 2 | **bear** | infinitive | ware *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **back** | participle | ware *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | ware's matchless hair | | | | | as silk; yellow *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **hang** | past | ware *not said here* | | | | | to the horse's croup | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lose** | past · perfect | ware | the half | | sooth | | thereof *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in sooth=Eventuality | | 7 | **fall** | past | | | | | | which *nsubj*; that *nsubj* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **tear out** | past · perfect · passive | | knight | | | | afore *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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. 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