Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 13
Yet had I given much in largesse, for I had frequented many a tourney and Table Round where I had scattered my goods; whosoever craved aught of me, whether for want or for reward, were he page, were he messenger, never did he depart empty-handed.
Who acts: I, whosoever, Table, page · What happens: give, frequent, scatter, crave, be, not depart · To what, where: largesse, many tourney, goods, aught, page, messenger
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, whosoever, Table, page), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 given | cc |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 given | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 largesse | case |
| 7 | largesse | largesse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 frequented | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 frequented | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 frequented | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 frequented | aux |
| 12 | frequented | frequent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 given | conj |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tourney | amod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tourney | det |
| 15 | tourney | tourney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 frequented | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Table | cc |
| 17 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tourney | conj |
| 18 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Table | flat |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 scattered | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 scattered | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 scattered | aux |
| 22 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 Table | acl:relcl |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 goods | nmod:poss |
| 24 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 scattered | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 craved | punct |
| 26 | whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 craved | nsubj |
| 27 | craved | crave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tourney | acl:relcl |
| 28 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 27 craved | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 aught | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 messenger | punct |
| 32 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 45 messenger | mark |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 want | case |
| 34 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 page | obl |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 reward | cc |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 reward | case |
| 37 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 want | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 want | punct |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 page | cop |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 page | nsubj |
| 41 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 messenger | nsubj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 page | punct |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 messenger | cop |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 messenger | nsubj |
| 45 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 frequented | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 depart | punct |
| 47 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 50 depart | advmod |
| 48 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 depart | aux |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 depart | nsubj |
| 50 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 frequented | conj |
| 51 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 handed | amod |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 empty | punct |
| 53 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 50 depart | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect | I | largesse | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | frequent | past · perfect | I | a many tourney and Table | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scatter | past · perfect | I | my goods | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goods=Theme | ||||
| 4 | crave | past | whosoever | aught of me | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot aught=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Table | page | for want or reward | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is a | past | page | messenger | Table nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | not depart | past · do-support | Table | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | hand | participle | Table not said here | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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