Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 84
Twas great marvel that they were not drowned, horse and man, for the river was deep, and the stream ran swiftly.
Who acts: great marvel, Twas, stream · What happens: not drown, be, run · To what, where: twas
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 (great marvel, Twas, stream), 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 deep | nsubj |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 marvel | amod |
| 3 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twas | conj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 drowned | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drowned | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 drowned | advmod |
| 8 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 marvel | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 horse | punct |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marvel | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 man | cc |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marvel | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 deep | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 deep | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deep | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 deep | cop |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stream | det |
| 22 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 deep | conj |
| 24 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 deep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drown | past · passive | great marvel and horse and man not said here | twas = twa | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Twas and great marvel and horse and man | the river nsubj; deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | past | the stream | 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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