Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 26
Any heart would have been the gladder who had seen and heard their gestures and their words, and in what love and friendship they betook themselves within, where they were right well received.
Who acts: heart, uncle · What happens: be, see, hear, betake, receive, gesture · To what, where: gestures, uncle, love
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 (heart, 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 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 heart | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gladder | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 gladder | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gladder | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 gladder | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gladder | det |
| 7 | gladder | glad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 gladder | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 gestures | nmod:poss |
| 14 | gestures | gesture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 words | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 words | nmod:poss |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gestures | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 betook | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 betook | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 21 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 22 love | det |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 betook | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 friendship | cc |
| 24 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | conj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 betook | nsubj |
| 26 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | conj |
| 27 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 betook | obj |
| 28 | within | within | ADP | _ | 35 received | mark |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 received | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 received | advmod |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 received | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 received | aux:pass |
| 33 | right | right | ADV | _ | 34 well | advmod |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 received | advmod |
| 35 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 betook | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gladder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | any heart | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | uncle's gestures and uncle's words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gesture=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | betake | past | uncle | uncle | what love and friendship | tree rules | |||
| 5 | receive | past · passive | uncle | well property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | gesture | uncle | nom gesture «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | word | uncle | nom word «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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