Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 17
Hither come folk stripped and bare-foot, doing penance for their sins; and they who pass ahorse or afoot have here had many a prayer granted.
Who acts: you, steeds · What happens: come, strip, do, pass, have, grant · To what, where: folk, penance, many prayer
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 (you, steeds), 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 | Hither | hither | ADV | _ | 2 come | advmod |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 come | obj |
| 4 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 folk | acl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 foot | cc |
| 6 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 foot | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bare | punct |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stripped | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 doing | punct |
| 10 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stripped | advcl |
| 11 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doing | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sins | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sins | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 doing | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 pass | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pass | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pass | nsubj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 pass | nsubj |
| 19 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | advcl |
| 20 | ahorse | ahorse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 had | advcl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 afoot | cc |
| 22 | afoot | afoot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ahorse | conj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 had | aux |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 had | advmod |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 pass | conj |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 prayer | amod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 prayer | det |
| 28 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 29 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 prayer | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | folk | hither property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location folk=Theme | |||
| 2 | strip | participle | folk not said here | bare foot conj | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | penance | for steeds's sins | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pass | present | steeds = steed | who nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present · perfect | steeds = steed not said here | a many prayer | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient | |||
| 6 | grant | participle | a many prayer not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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