Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 31
The knights lay longer abed than did the hermit, who had said and sung his orisons and his Mass ere day had dawned, or that the knights had arisen and done on their garments.
Who acts: knights, hermit · What happens: lay, do, say, sing, dawn, arise · To what, where: hermit, orisons, Mass ere day, knights, garments · 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 (knights, hermit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knights | det |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 abed | advmod |
| 5 | abed | abed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | xcomp |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 did | mark |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 abed | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hermit | det |
| 9 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 said | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | aux |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 hermit | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sung | cc |
| 15 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 orisons | nmod:poss |
| 17 | orisons | orison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sung | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dawned | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 day | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 day | compound |
| 21 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 day | compound |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dawned | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dawned | aux |
| 24 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sung | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 arisen | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 arisen | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 arisen | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 knights | det |
| 29 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 arisen | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 arisen | aux |
| 31 | arisen | arise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lay | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 done | cc |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 arisen | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 garments | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 garments | nmod:poss |
| 36 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 done | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the knights | abed property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the knights not said here | the hermit | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the hermit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | participle | the hermit not said here | Knight's orisons | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location orison=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dawn | past · perfect · passive | Knight's Mass ere day | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | arise | past · perfect · passive | the knights | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | do | participle | Twas's garments | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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