Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 88
They heard folk who stood without the walls, at the master gate, who cried with loud voice, "Alas, alas!
Who acts: words, folk, master gate · What happens: hear, stand, cry · To what, where: folk
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, folk, master gate), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 folk | acl:relcl |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gate | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 gate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gate | det |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gate | compound |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gate | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 18 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Alas | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Alas | punct |
| 22 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 2 heard | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 alas | punct |
| 24 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 2 heard | discourse |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | words = word | folk | the master gate conj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer folk=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stand | past | folk | without the walls | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the master gate | with loud voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme |
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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