Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 25
Twould have done any heart good, who understood their speech, to see how Sir Agloval and Morien embraced and kissed each other.
Who acts: Sir, uncle · What happens: do, understand, see, embrace, kiss, speak · To what, where: heart, speech, each · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sir, uncle), 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 | Twould | twould | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 done | aux |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 heart | det |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 done | obj |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 done | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 understood | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 understood | nsubj |
| 9 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | parataxis |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 speech | nmod:poss |
| 11 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 understood | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 understood | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 embraced | advmod |
| 16 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 embraced | nsubj |
| 17 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sir | flat |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Morien | cc |
| 19 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sir | conj |
| 20 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kissed | cc |
| 22 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 embraced | conj |
| 23 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 22 kissed | obj |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 each | fixed |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | perfect | any heart | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | uncle's speech | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | embrace | past | Sir and Morien | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | kiss | past | Sir and Morien not said here | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | speak | uncle | nom speech «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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