Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 78
The maiden ware a robe of green silk, that was rent in many places, 'twas the cruel knight had wrought the mischief.
Who acts: maiden ware, twas · What happens: rend, wrought · To what, where: maiden ware, many places, cruel knight
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 (maiden ware, twas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ware | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ware | amod |
| 3 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 robe | det |
| 5 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ware | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 silk | case |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 silk | amod |
| 8 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 robe | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rent | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 rent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rent | aux:pass |
| 12 | rent | rend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ware | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 places | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 places | amod |
| 15 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 twas | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 twas | punct |
| 18 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 places | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knight | det |
| 20 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knight | amod |
| 21 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wrought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 wrought | aux |
| 23 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 twas | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mischief | det |
| 25 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wrought | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rend | past · passive | the maiden ware not said here | the maiden ware | many places twas | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | wrought | past · perfect · passive | twas not said here | the cruel knight | the mischief obj | 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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