Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 26
Each plighted their troth to the other ere she granted him her favours.
Who acts: plighted troth, troth · What happens: plight, grant, favour · To what, where: favours, Sir
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plighted troth, troth), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 troth | det |
| 2 | plighted | plight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 troth | amod |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 troth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 granted | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ere | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ere | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ere | amod |
| 8 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 troth | nmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 granted | nsubj |
| 10 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 granted | obj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 favours | nmod:poss |
| 13 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 granted | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plight | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | grant | past | words's plighted troth to the other ere | troth's favours | Sir | troth nsubj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal favour=Theme | ||
| 3 | favour | troth | nom favour «feeling 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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