Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 1
When they beheld each other they gave fair and courteous greeting, the one to the other, and Sir Gariët spake. "
Who acts: they · What happens: behold, give · To what, where: other, fair greeting
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beheld | nsubj |
| 3 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | advcl |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 other | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beheld | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 greeting | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 courteous | cc |
| 10 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fair | conj |
| 11 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 greeting | appos |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 other | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spake | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spake | cc |
| 20 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Gariët | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 spake | compound |
| 22 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 spake | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | they | each other | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | past | they | fair greeting | Gariët spake obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Recipient speak=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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