Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 58
The dream vexed him sorely whenever he thought thereon; he was angry and wroth, and wist not what the portent of the vision might be.
Who acts: dream, door · What happens: vex, think, be, not be, portend · To what, where: door, vision
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 (dream, door), 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 dream | det |
| 2 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vexed | nsubj |
| 3 | vexed | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 vexed | obj |
| 5 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 3 vexed | advmod |
| 6 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 thought | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vexed | advcl |
| 9 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 8 thought | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 angry | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 angry | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 angry | cop |
| 13 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vexed | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wroth | cc |
| 15 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 angry | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 what | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 what | cc |
| 18 | wist | wist | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 what | advmod |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 vexed | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 portent | det |
| 22 | portent | portent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 be | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 vision | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 vision | det |
| 25 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 portent | nmod |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 be | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past | the dream | door | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | door | thereon, whenever property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | door | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | door not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | portend | the vision | nom portent «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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