Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 65
He thanked God of true heart that he had thus won honour on this evil folk, and that he had escaped with his life, and free from mortal wound, he and his steed, and that God had thus protected them.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: thank, win, escape, protect · To what, where: God, honour, evil folk, Sir
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 (Sir), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heart | amod |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 God | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 won | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 won | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 won | aux |
| 10 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 won | advmod |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thanked | advcl |
| 12 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 folk | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 folk | det |
| 15 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 folk | amod |
| 16 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 escaped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 escaped | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 escaped | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 escaped | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 escaped | aux |
| 22 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 escaped | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 free | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 free | cc |
| 28 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 wound | case |
| 30 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wound | amod |
| 31 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 free | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 he | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 steed | cc |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 steed | nmod:poss |
| 36 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 he | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 protected | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 protected | cc |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 protected | mark |
| 40 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 protected | aux |
| 42 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 43 protected | advmod |
| 43 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 free | parataxis |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 protected | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Sir | God of true heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | ||||
| 2 | win | past · perfect | Sir | honour | this evil folk | thus property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | escape | past · perfect | Sir | with Sir's life | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | protect | past · perfect · passive | Sir | God nsubj:pass; thus property | 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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