Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 41
This had the king sworn and on the morrow would he come thither; he had laid waste the country and destroyed the churches, and made many widows and orphans; all the land was in terror for the harm thus wrought upon them.
Who acts: This, King, land · What happens: have, swear, come, lay, destroy, make · To what, where: king, morrow, waste, churches, many widows, terror
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 (This, King, land), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 king | acl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 morrow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morrow | det |
| 9 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sworn | conj |
| 13 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 laid | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 laid | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 laid | aux |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | conj |
| 18 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 destroyed | cc |
| 22 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 churches | det |
| 24 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 destroyed | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 widows | amod |
| 29 | widows | widow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 made | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 orphans | cc |
| 31 | orphans | orphan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 widows | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 terror | punct |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 land | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 land | det |
| 35 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 terror | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 terror | cop |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 terror | case |
| 38 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | parataxis |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 harm | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 harm | det |
| 41 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 terror | nmod |
| 42 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 43 wrought | advmod |
| 43 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 harm | amod |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 them | case |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 wrought | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | This | the king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swear | participle | the king not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | would | King | the morrow | thither property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on morrow=Location | |||
| 4 | lay | past · perfect | King | waste | the country obl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Result | |||
| 5 | destroy | past | This not said here | the churches | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Patient | ||||
| 6 | make | past | This not said here | many widows and orphans | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset widow=Product | ||||
| 7 | is | past | all land | terror | for the harm | 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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