Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 47
Then is the beast greater than a horse, and runneth more swiftly than any horse may.
What happens: be, run
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: 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 | 5 greater | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 greater | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beast | det |
| 4 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 greater | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 greater | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 runneth | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 runneth | cc |
| 11 | runneth | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 greater | conj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 swiftly | advmod |
| 13 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 11 runneth | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swiftly | obl |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 greater | aux |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 greater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may · present | then | than a horse; the beast obl:unmarked; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | present | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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