Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 94
Then came they in, who stood without, bearing a bier, and making so great cry and lamentation that men heard it far and near through the open doorways.
Who acts: tidings, men · What happens: come, stand, bear, make, hear · To what, where: bier, great cry, open doorways
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 (tidings, men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bearing | punct |
| 10 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stood | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bier | det |
| 12 | bier | bier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bearing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 making | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 making | cc |
| 15 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 great | advmod |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cry | amod |
| 18 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 making | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lamentation | cc |
| 20 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cry | conj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 heard | obj |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cry | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 heard | obj |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 heard | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 near | cc |
| 27 | near | near | ADV | _ | 25 far | conj |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 doorways | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 doorways | det |
| 30 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 doorways | amod |
| 31 | doorways | doorway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 heard | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | tidings = tiding | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | who nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | a bier | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bier=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | tidings = tiding not said here | great cry and lamentation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cry=Product | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | men | great cry and lamentation | the open doorways | bier obj; far 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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