Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 4
Evil was his thought, and he cried: "Vassal, how were ye so bold as to do me this hurt and this shame?
Who acts: Evil, knight, ye, this · What happens: be, cry, do, hurt · To what, where: thought, knight · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evil, knight, ye, this), 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 | Evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nmod:poss |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | acl:relcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Vassal | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Vassal | punct |
| 11 | Vassal | vassal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bold | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 bold | advmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bold | cop |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 bold | nsubj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 bold | advmod |
| 17 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Vassal | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bold | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | iobj |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 hurt | nsubj |
| 23 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shame | cc |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 shame | det |
| 26 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hurt | conj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Evil | knight's thought | knight nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | knight | knight's thought not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | Evil not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | ye | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | ye not said here | knight | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | hurt in a quote | past | this | this shame conj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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