Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 33
He had burnt and laid waste so much men scarce knew the tale thereof, and the queen had he beset in a castle to which he himself laid siege.
Who acts: Sir, much men, queen · What happens: burnt, lay, know, beset, siege · To what, where: tale, castle
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 (Sir, much men, queen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burnt | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burnt | aux |
| 3 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 waste | cc |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 waste | amod |
| 6 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burnt | conj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burnt | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tale | det |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | obj |
| 14 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 11 knew | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beset | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beset | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 queen | det |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beset | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beset | aux |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beset | nsubj |
| 21 | beset | beset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 burnt | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 castle | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beset | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 siege | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 siege | nsubj |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 27 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | laid | laid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 siege | amod |
| 30 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 castle | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | past · perfect | Sir | laid waste conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | know | past | much men | the tale | thereof property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | beset | past | the queen | a castle | Sir nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | siege | Sir | to a castle | 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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