Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 64
The minstrels and the heralds received great largesse, for there was gold enow; each had that which he desired.
Who acts: minstrels · What happens: receive, be, have, desire · To what, where: great largesse, gold enow
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 (minstrels), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 minstrels | det |
| 2 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 received | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heralds | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heralds | det |
| 5 | heralds | herald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 minstrels | conj |
| 6 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 largesse | amod |
| 8 | largesse | largesse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 enow | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 was | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 enow | cop |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enow | compound |
| 14 | enow | enow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 had | advmod |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 received | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 desired | mark |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 desired | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 desired | nsubj |
| 21 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the minstrels and the heralds | great largesse | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent largesse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | gold enow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the minstrels and the heralds not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | desire | past | which nsubj; man nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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