Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 30
That even was there naught but gladness; each made great joy of the other, and erst as the knights were weary did they get them to sleep, as men are wont to do, till the day brake, and the sun shone forth.
Who acts: That, each, knights, Twas, food, men · What happens: be, make, get, sleep, do, shine · To what, where: naught, great joy, food
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 (That, each, knights, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 naught | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 naught | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 naught | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 naught | advmod |
| 5 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 gladness | cc |
| 7 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 naught | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 naught | parataxis |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 joy | amod |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 other | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 joy | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 erst | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 erst | cc |
| 18 | erst | erst | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 weary | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knights | det |
| 21 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 weary | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 weary | cop |
| 23 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 get | advcl |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 get | aux |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 get | nsubj |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 erst | parataxis |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 get | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 sleep | mark |
| 29 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 get | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wont | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 wont | mark |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 wont | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 wont | cop |
| 34 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 get | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wont | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 brake | punct |
| 38 | till | till | ADP | _ | 41 brake | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 brake | det |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 brake | compound |
| 41 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 do | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 shone | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 shone | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sun | det |
| 45 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 shone | nsubj |
| 46 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 47 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 46 shone | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 naught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | naught | there | gladness conj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | make | past | each | great joy of the other | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joy=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the knights | weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | past · do-support | Twas = twa | food | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | food not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | men | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | men not said here | till the day brake | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | shine | past | the sun | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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