Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 28
He told her his quest, whereof he was sore troubled, and how it came about that he must needs leave her, and that will I now tell ye.
Who acts: Sir, quest, that · What happens: tell, be, come about, need, leave, quest · To what, where: quest, troth, ye · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, quest, that), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 quest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 troubled | punct |
| 7 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 troubled | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 troubled | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 troubled | cop |
| 10 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 troubled | amod |
| 11 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 quest | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 came | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 came | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 needs | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 needs | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 needs | aux |
| 21 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | advcl |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 needs | xcomp |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tell | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tell | cc |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 tell | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 tell | aux |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 tell | nsubj |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 tell | advmod |
| 30 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | ccomp |
| 31 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 tell | iobj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Sir | Sir's quest | troth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Sir | troubled, whereof property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come about | past | quest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | need | must | Sir | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave not said to happen | infinitive | Sir not said here | troth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | future | that | ye | now | I nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | ||
| 7 | quest | Sir | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: 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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