Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 79
I marvel much that they who were skilled in verse and the making of rhymes did not bring the story to its rightful ending.
Who acts: I, making, rhymes, rhyme · What happens: marvel, skill, not bring, make, end · To what, where: tales, verse, story, rightful ending
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, making, rhymes, rhyme), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 marvel | nsubj |
| 2 | marvel | marvel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 marvel | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 skilled | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 skilled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 skilled | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 skilled | aux:pass |
| 8 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 marvel | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 verse | case |
| 10 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skilled | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bring | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 making | det |
| 13 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 rhymes | case |
| 15 | rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 making | nmod |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bring | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 bring | advmod |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 skilled | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ending | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ending | nmod:poss |
| 23 | rightful | rightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ending | amod |
| 24 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 marvel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marvel | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | skill | past · passive | tales = tale | verse | who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not bring | past · do-support | the making of rhymes | the story | rhyme's rightful ending | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme to ending=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | rhymes | nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | end | rhyme | nom ending «communication transitive»: poss=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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