Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 43
Though one saw the blood well through, yet had the hauberk never a score.
What happens: see, have · To what, where: blood, hauberk
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: 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 | Though | though | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 saw | obl |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blood | det |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 through | advmod |
| 7 | through | through | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hauberk | det |
| 12 | hauberk | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 score | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 score | det |
| 15 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the blood | though one; through property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the hauberk | a score obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hauberk=Patient |
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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