Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 60
When this was done, and they had proclaimed her queen over all the kingdom of the Moors, then did they hold the bridal feast of Sir Agloval and the queen, and thus were they wedded to each other.
Who acts: others · What happens: do, proclaim, hold, be · To what, where: this, queen, kingdom, bridal feast
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 (others), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proclaimed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 proclaimed | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 proclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 proclaimed | aux |
| 9 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 done | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 queen | nmod:poss |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proclaimed | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 kingdom | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proclaimed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Moors | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Moors | det |
| 18 | Moors | Moor | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 kingdom | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hold | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 hold | advmod |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hold | aux |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hold | nsubj |
| 23 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 feast | det |
| 25 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feast | amod |
| 26 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hold | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Agloval | case |
| 28 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Agloval | nmod:desc |
| 29 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 feast | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 queen | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 queen | det |
| 32 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Agloval | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 wedded | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 wedded | cc |
| 35 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 38 wedded | advmod |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 wedded | cop |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 wedded | nsubj |
| 38 | wedded | wed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | advcl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 each | case |
| 40 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 38 wedded | obl |
| 41 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 each | fixed |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | proclaim | past · perfect | others = other | press's queen | all kingdom of the Moors | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | |||
| 3 | hold | past · do-support | others = other | the bridal feast of Agloval Sir and the queen | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | others = other | to each; thus, wed 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.
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