Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 87

For as they sat at table and ate and drank and had enow of all the earth might bear for the sustenance of man, and forgat thereby all sorrow, they heard sore wailing and lamentation, and the smiting together of hands, and knew not what it might mean.

Who acts: words, earth · What happens: sit, eat, drink, have, bear, hear · To what, where: table, enow, sore wailing · 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 (words, earth), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 sat	mark
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 sat	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heard	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 table	case
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ate	cc
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drank	cc
10	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ate	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drank	conj
13	enow	enow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 bear	mark
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 bear	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bear	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 bear	aux
19	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 enow	acl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 sustenance	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sustenance	det
22	sustenance	sustenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bear	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 man	case
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sustenance	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 forgat	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 forgat	cc
27	forgat	forgat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	conj
28	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	30 sorrow	advmod
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 sorrow	det
30	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 forgat	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	nsubj
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wailing	amod
35	wailing	wailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lamentation	cc
37	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wailing	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 smiting	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 smiting	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 smiting	det
41	smiting	smite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 heard	advcl
42	together	together	ADV	_	41 smiting	advmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 hands	case
44	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 smiting	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 knew	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 knew	cc
47	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heard	conj
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 knew	advmod
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	52 mean	obj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 mean	nsubj
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 mean	aux
52	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 knew	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	words = word		table	forgat all sorrow conj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	eat	past	words = word not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	past	words = word not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	words = word not said here	enow			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enow=Patient
5	bear	might	the earth	enow not said here		for the sustenance of man	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer enow=Stimulus for sustenance=Attribute
6	hear	past	words = word	sore wailing and lamentation			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wailing=Stimulus
7	smite	gerund	words = word not said here			of hands; together property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	not know	past	words = word not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	mean	might	earth			what obj	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 87

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 87