Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 16
Never had they so welcome a guest, nor one at whose coming they were so blithe.
Who acts: slain, one · What happens: not have, welcome, come, be · To what, where: guest
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slain, one), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 welcome | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 welcome | advmod |
| 5 | welcome | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 guest | det |
| 7 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 welcome | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 coming | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 coming | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 coming | nsubj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 whose | case |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 coming | aux |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 had | advcl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 blithe | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 blithe | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 blithe | advmod |
| 17 | blithe | blithe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coming | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | welcome | present | slain | a guest | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | slain | blithe property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/12/16/