Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 91
Now in that land there dwelt a maiden who had caused it to be made known far and wide that whosoever might slay that beast him would she take for her husband.
Who acts: maiden, whosoever, Sir · What happens: dwell, cause, make, know, slay, take · To what, where: maiden, land, beast
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 (maiden, whosoever, Sir), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 land | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 land | det |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelt | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dwelt | advmod |
| 6 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelt | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 caused | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caused | aux |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 caused | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 caused | advcl |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 made | xcomp |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 known | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wide | cc |
| 19 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 slay | mark |
| 21 | whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 slay | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 slay | aux |
| 23 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wide | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 beast | det |
| 25 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slay | obj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 take | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | aux |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 take | nsubj |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 beast | acl:relcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 husband | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 husband | nmod:poss |
| 32 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a maiden | that land; there | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme maiden=Location | |||
| 2 | cause | past · perfect | a maiden | maiden | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive · passive | a maiden not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | participle | a maiden not said here | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | slay | might | whosoever | that beast | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient | ||||
| 6 | take | would | Sir | that beast not said here | for sware's husband; sware nsubj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beast=Theme for husband=Beneficiary |
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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