--- title: Then he rode swiftly upon the backward trail till he came once more… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Then he rode swiftly upon the backward trail till he came once more to the parting of the ways; there found he carpenter-folk hewing and shaping timber, whereof they had made a great wheel. Who acts: head, ways. 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Weston, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, ways), 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:pg8447:7:37 # text = Then he rode swiftly upon the backward trail till he came once more to the parting of the ways; there found he carpenter-folk hewing and shaping timber, whereof they had made a great wheel. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 backward backward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 till till SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 advmod _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 obj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 parting parting NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 carpenter carpenter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 hewing hewing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 shaping shape VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 30 timber timber NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 whereof whereof ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ride** | past | head | | | | then | upon the backward trail; swiftly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | head | more | | | | to the parting of the ways; once *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | head *not said here* | | | there | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hewing** | | head | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **shape** | gerund | head *not said here* | timber | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset timber=Product | | 6 | **make** | past · perfect | ways *= way* | a great wheel | | | | whereof *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wheel=Product | | 7 | **part** | | the ways | | | | | | nom parting «act intransitive»: of=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. 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