Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 54
Then spake Arthur, "God wot, here have I both joy and sorrow.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: speak, have, joy · To what, where: Arthur · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wot | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wot | punct |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wot | compound |
| 7 | wot | wot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Arthur | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 have | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | conj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 joy | nsubj |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 joy | det |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sorrow | cc |
| 15 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joy | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | Arthur | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you not said here | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | joy in a quote | I | sorrow conj | 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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