Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 70
To behold these marvels would many a man come to court, for the king had bidden all the great folk of the land thither, and many a knight of praise had obeyed his command.
Who acts: marvels, king, man · What happens: behold, come, bid, obey, command · To what, where: court, great folk, many · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (marvels, king, man), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 behold | mark |
| 2 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | advcl |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 marvels | det |
| 4 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bidden | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 bidden | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bidden | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bidden | aux |
| 17 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 come | advcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 folk | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 folk | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 folk | amod |
| 21 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bidden | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 land | det |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 folk | nmod |
| 25 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 17 bidden | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 obeyed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 obeyed | cc |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 knight | det |
| 30 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 praise | case |
| 32 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 knight | nmod |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 obeyed | aux |
| 34 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bidden | advcl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 command | nmod:poss |
| 36 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 obeyed | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | to-infinitive | this marvels not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | come | would | this marvels | court | a man nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | bid | past · perfect | the king | all great folk of the land | thither property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | obey | past · perfect · passive | many | a knight of praise nsubj:pass; man's command obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | command | man | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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