Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 52
But there were many in the court heavy at heart, and sore vexed with the king their lord for that he held them so cheap.
Who acts: lord · What happens: be, vex, hold · To what, where: many, words
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 (lord), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 were | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 vexed | advcl |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 were | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 court | det |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 many | nmod |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 court | amod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heavy | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vexed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vexed | cc |
| 13 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 vexed | amod |
| 14 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vexed | obl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lord | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | nsubj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 lord | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | nsubj |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 vexed | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | obj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 cheap | advmod |
| 26 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 held | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | many | there | in the court | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot many=Theme in court=Attribute | |||
| 2 | vex | participle | with the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | words's lord for that | words = word | cheap property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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