Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 62
So weary and so weak were they that they lay all along the road, discomfited, prone on the earth, as those who have sore need of rest.
Who acts: blows · What happens: be, discomfit, have, need · To what, where: prone, earth, sore need, rest
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 (blows), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 weary | advmod |
| 2 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 weak | cc |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 weak | advmod |
| 5 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 weary | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | cop |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lay | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 weary | conj |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 road | advmod |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 discomfited | punct |
| 16 | discomfited | discomfit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prone | punct |
| 18 | prone | prone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 discomfited | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 earth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 earth | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prone | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 those | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 those | case |
| 24 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 discomfited | conj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 have | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 those | acl:relcl |
| 27 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 need | amod |
| 28 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 rest | case |
| 30 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 need | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 weary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | blows = blow | along the road; lay property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discomfit | past | blows = blow not said here | prone | the earth | those conj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prone=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | have | present | sore need of rest | who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 5 | need | rest | nom need «state transitive»: of=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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