Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 28
When Sir Perceval heard this, never did knight receive so glad a welcome as that which he gave unto his nephew; so likewise did the hermit. '
Who acts: Sir, knight · What happens: hear, not receive, give, do · To what, where: this, glad, hermit
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, knight), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 receive | punct |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 receive | advmod |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 receive | aux |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 receive | nsubj |
| 10 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 glad | advmod |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 receive | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 welcome | det |
| 14 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glad | nsubj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 glad | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | parataxis |
| 20 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 22 nephew | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 did | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 did | advmod |
| 25 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 26 did | advmod |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hermit | det |
| 28 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 did | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Sir | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not receive | past · do-support | knight | glad a welcome as that | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glad=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | unto Sir's nephew; which nsubj; Sir nsubj | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | do | past | Sir not said here | the hermit | likewise property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Eventuality |
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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