Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 63
Many rich gifts were given, good steeds, raiment of fair colours, many shillings, many pounds, great plenty of all things by which men may the more blithely live.
Who acts: Many rich gifts · What happens: give, live · To what, where: Many rich gifts
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 (Many rich gifts), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gifts | amod |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gifts | amod |
| 3 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 live | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gifts | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 steeds | punct |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steeds | amod |
| 8 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gifts | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 raiment | punct |
| 10 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gifts | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 colours | case |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 colours | amod |
| 13 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 raiment | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shillings | punct |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shillings | amod |
| 16 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 colours | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pounds | punct |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pounds | amod |
| 19 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 colours | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 plenty | punct |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plenty | amod |
| 22 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 colours | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 things | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 things | det |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 plenty | nmod |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 blithely | obl |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 blithely | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 blithely | aux |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 blithely | det |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 blithely | advmod |
| 32 | blithely | blithely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 things | acl:relcl |
| 33 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | Many rich gifts and good steeds and raiment of fair colours and many shillings and many pounds and great plenty of all things not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | live | present | Many rich gifts and good steeds and raiment of fair colours and many shillings and many pounds and great plenty of all things | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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