Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 86
But since he might scarce speak he made him to be disarmed, and stripped to the skin, and wrapped in warm coverings and gave him a sop steeped in clear wine.
Who acts: Knight, sop · What happens: make, disarm, strip, wrap, give, steep · To what, where: Court, warm coverings, Knight
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 (Knight, sop), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 2 | since | since | ADP | _ | 6 speak | case |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 speak | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 speak | aux |
| 5 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speak | amod |
| 6 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 disarmed | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 disarmed | aux:pass |
| 12 | disarmed | disarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 made | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stripped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stripped | cc |
| 15 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 disarmed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 skin | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 skin | det |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stripped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wrapped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wrapped | cc |
| 21 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 disarmed | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 coverings | case |
| 23 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coverings | amod |
| 24 | coverings | covering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wrapped | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gave | cc |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wrapped | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | iobj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sop | det |
| 29 | sop | sop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 steeped | nsubj |
| 30 | steeped | steep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 gave | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 wine | case |
| 32 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 wine | amod |
| 33 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 steeped | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Knight | Court | since scarce speak Knight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | |||
| 2 | disarm | to-infinitive · passive | Knight not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | strip | participle | Knight not said here | to the skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wrap | participle | warm coverings | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in covering=Destination | |||||
| 5 | give | past | Knight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 6 | steep | past | a sop | in clear wine | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in wine=Instrument |
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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