Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 41
The belief that the blood of a corpse would flow afresh, did the murderer approach it, was very prevalent in the middle ages.
Who acts: blood, belief, murderer · What happens: flow, do, approach, be · To what, where: belief, murderer, middle ages
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood, belief, murderer), 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 belief | det |
| 2 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 flow | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blood | det |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flow | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 corpse | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 corpse | det |
| 8 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blood | nmod |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 flow | aux |
| 10 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 belief | acl |
| 11 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flow | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 belief | punct |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 murderer | det |
| 15 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 16 | approach | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 murderer | acl:relcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 approach | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prevalent | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 prevalent | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 prevalent | advmod |
| 21 | prevalent | prevalent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 did | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ages | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ages | det |
| 24 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ages | compound |
| 25 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 prevalent | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | would | the blood of a corpse | the belief not said here | afresh property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location belief=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | the belief | the murderer | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murderer=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | approach | present | the murderer not said here | murderer | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the belief not said here | in the middle ages | prevalent 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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