Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 61
There was bliss and great rejoicing fourteen days, even till nightfall did they hold high feast with open doors; never a portal was shut.
Who acts: nightfall, portal · What happens: rejoice, hold, not be · To what, where: high 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 (nightfall, portal), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shut | cop |
| 3 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 days | cc |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 6 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 days | amod |
| 7 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bliss | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hold | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 nightfall | advmod |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 nightfall | case |
| 12 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hold | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hold | aux |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hold | nsubj |
| 15 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feast | amod |
| 17 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hold | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 doors | case |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 doors | amod |
| 20 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hold | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 shut | punct |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 shut | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 portal | det |
| 24 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shut | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shut | cop |
| 26 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | hold | past · do-support | nightfall | high feast | with open doors; bliss nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 3 | not is | past | a portal | shut 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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