Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 5
He drew forth from his pouch a root that had this virtue, that it stayed the flow of blood and strengthened the feeble; he placed it in the knight's mouth, and bade him eat a little; therewith was his heart lightened, and he began to eat and to drink, and forgat somewhat of his pain.
Who acts: God, root, virtue, heart, blood · What happens: draw, have, stay, strengthen, place, eat · To what, where: root, virtue, flow, feeble, mouth, bade
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 (God, root, virtue, heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 drew | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 pouch | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pouch | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 root | det |
| 8 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 root | acl:relcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 virtue | det |
| 12 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stayed | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 stayed | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stayed | nsubj |
| 16 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flow | det |
| 18 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stayed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 blood | case |
| 20 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flow | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 strengthened | cc |
| 22 | strengthened | strengthen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stayed | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 feeble | det |
| 24 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 strengthened | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 placed | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 placed | nsubj |
| 27 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 placed | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 mouth | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 knight | det |
| 31 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 knight | case |
| 33 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 placed | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 eat | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 eat | cc |
| 36 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 eat | obl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 eat | nsubj |
| 38 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | parataxis |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 little | det |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 eat | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 lightened | punct |
| 42 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 45 heart | advmod |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 heart | cop |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 heart | nmod:poss |
| 45 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 lightened | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | lightened | lighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 drew | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 began | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 began | cc |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 began | nsubj |
| 50 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 eat | mark |
| 52 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 began | xcomp |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 drink | cc |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 drink | mark |
| 55 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 eat | conj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 forgat | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 forgat | cc |
| 58 | forgat | forgat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 began | obl |
| 59 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 62 pain | advmod |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 62 pain | case |
| 61 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 pain | nmod:poss |
| 62 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 forgat | nmod |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | God | a root | from God's pouch; forth property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from pouch=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | a root | this virtue | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | virtue | the flow of blood | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme flow=Location | ||||
| 4 | strengthen | past | virtue not said here | the feeble | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feeble=Patient | ||||
| 5 | place | past | God | flow | the knight's mouth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mouth=Destination | |||
| 6 | eat | present | God | bade | a little obl:unmarked | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | is a | past | God's heart | God nmod:poss; therewith property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | lighten | participle · passive | God's heart | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 9 | begin | past | heart | forgat of God's pain | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 10 | eat | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | drink | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 12 | flow | blood | nom flow «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 13 | pain | God | nom pain «state 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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