Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 95
So came they into the hall, a great company of folk, and cried with a loud voice to the lord of the castle, "Alas, master, here lieth dead the best knight that one might find in the wide world, even your dear son.
Who acts: tidings, one · What happens: come, cry, lie, find · To what, where: hall, master, lord, best knight, wide world · 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 (tidings, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 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 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 company | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 company | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 company | amod |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hall | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 folk | case |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 company | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 18 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 lord | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lord | det |
| 22 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 castle | det |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lord | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 master | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 master | punct |
| 28 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 30 master | discourse |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Alas | punct |
| 30 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lieth | punct |
| 32 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 lieth | advmod |
| 33 | lieth | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 34 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 lieth | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 knight | det |
| 36 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 knight | amod |
| 37 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lieth | obj |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 find | obj |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 find | nsubj |
| 40 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 find | aux |
| 41 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 knight | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 world | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 world | det |
| 44 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 world | amod |
| 45 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 find | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 son | punct |
| 47 | even | even | ADV | _ | 50 son | advmod |
| 48 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 son | nmod:poss |
| 49 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 son | amod |
| 50 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 find | vocative |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | tidings = tiding | the hall | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | tidings = tiding not said here | master | the lord of the castle | with a loud voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lord=Recipient | ||
| 3 | lie in a quote | present | the best knight | here | dead property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knight=Theme | |||
| 4 | find in a quote | might | one | the best knight | the wide world | your dear son vocative | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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