Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 92
The lord gave command from within that they should ask what company stood without, and what tidings they bare.
Who acts: lord, sorrows, company · What happens: give, ask, stand, bare · To what, where: command, tidings
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 (lord, sorrows, company), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lord | det |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 command | nmod |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 what | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 what | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 18 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 what | nsubj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bare | nsubj |
| 20 | bare | bare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tidings | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the lord | command | what tidings parataxis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | should | sorrows = sorrow | what obj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | company | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bare | present | sorrows = sorrow | tidings not said here | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=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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