Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 45
Then was there neither of the twain, Sir Gawain nor Sir Lancelot, but the tears fell from their eyes when they heard the knight's tale.
Who acts: tears, knight · What happens: be, fall, hear, tell · To what, where: eyes, tale · 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 (tears, knight), 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 | 3 there | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 there | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 twain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 twain | det |
| 7 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 neither | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 there | vocative |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 Sir | cc |
| 12 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gawain | conj |
| 13 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sir | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tears | det |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | parataxis |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fell | obl |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 heard | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fell | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 knight | det |
| 26 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tale | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 knight | case |
| 28 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | then | neither of the twain obl; Gawain Sir nor Sir vocative; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the tears | tears's eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | tears = tear | the knight's tale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | tell | the knight | nom tale «communication 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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