Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 28
Each told the other how matters had fallen out with them, and Morien gave them to wit how it had fared with his father.
Who acts: matters, Morien · What happens: tell, fall out, give, wit, fare · To what, where: other, matters, couch · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matters, Morien), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 told | advmod |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 other | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 fallen | advmod |
| 6 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fallen | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fallen | aux |
| 8 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 fallen | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fallen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 14 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wit | mark |
| 18 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 gave | xcomp |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 fared | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fared | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fared | aux |
| 22 | fared | fare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 wit | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 father | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fared | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the other | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fall out | past · perfect | matters | with guests = guest | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Morien | matters = matter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wit | to-infinitive | Morien not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fare | past · perfect · passive | couch | with Morien's father | tree rules |
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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