Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 15
Of this was his wife so sorrowful that for grief and woe her heart brake, and so did they die here, the twain of them, even at the cross roads, where ye see the fair cross, where now many a judgment is spoken. '
Who acts: this, steeds, ye · What happens: be, die, see, speak · To what, where: heart brake, fair cross, many judgment · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, steeds, ye), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wife | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 wife | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wife | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 sorrowful | advmod |
| 7 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wife | amod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 grief | mark |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 grief | case |
| 10 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sorrowful | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 woe | cc |
| 12 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grief | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brake | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brake | compound |
| 15 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grief | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 die | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 die | advmod |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 die | aux |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 die | nsubj |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brake | acl:relcl |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 die | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 twain | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 twain | det |
| 25 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grief | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 twain | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 roads | punct |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 roads | advmod |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 roads | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 roads | det |
| 32 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 roads | compound |
| 33 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grief | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 see | advmod |
| 36 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 see | nsubj |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 roads | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 cross | det |
| 39 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cross | amod |
| 40 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 see | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 spoken | punct |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 48 spoken | advmod |
| 43 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 many | advmod |
| 44 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 judgment | amod |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 judgment | det |
| 46 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 spoken | aux:pass |
| 48 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 cross | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | of knight's wife; knight nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | past · do-support | steeds = steed | wife's heart brake not said here | here | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | present | ye | the fair cross | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present · passive | a many judgment | 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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