Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 6
And the good man answered and said 'twas but the other day, afore noon, that he had seen two knights who were wondrous like unto each other. "
Who acts: good man, man, two knights · What happens: answer, say, see, be · To what, where: twas, two knights · 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 (good man, man, two knights), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 twas | punct |
| 9 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 day | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twas | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 noon | punct |
| 15 | afore | afore | ADP | _ | 16 noon | case |
| 16 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twas | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 knights | nummod |
| 23 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 seen | obj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 wondrous | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 wondrous | cop |
| 26 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 knights | acl:relcl |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 each | case |
| 28 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 29 each | case |
| 29 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 26 wondrous | obl |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 each | fixed |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the good man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the good man not said here | twas but the other day and noon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | man | two knights | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | two knights | like each; wondrous property | 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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