Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 29
Twas bliss and fair speech there betwixt those knights, and in their honour did they bring forth such food and drink as was there within, and did all they might for their comfort.
Who acts: Twas · What happens: bliss, bring, be, do, honour, comfort · To what, where: such food, honour
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 (Twas), 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bliss | nsubj |
| 2 | bliss | bliss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 betwixt | cc |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speech | amod |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 betwixt | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 betwixt | advmod |
| 7 | betwixt | betwixt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bliss | conj |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 knights | det |
| 9 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 betwixt | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bring | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 honour | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 honour | nmod:poss |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obl |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bring | aux |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | nsubj |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bliss | advcl |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 bring | advmod |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 food | amod |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drink | cc |
| 22 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 food | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 there | mark |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 there | cop |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 bring | parataxis |
| 26 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 there | case |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 did | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 did | cc |
| 29 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bliss | parataxis |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 might | det |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 might | nsubj |
| 32 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 did | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 comfort | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 35 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 did | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bliss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bliss | present | Twas | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | past · do-support | Twas = twa | such food and drink | Twas's honour | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | past | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | past | for Twas's comfort | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | honour | Twas = twa | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | comfort | Twas = twa | nom comfort «state 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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