Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 97
Then was all the burg aghast; and the host, the father of the knight who lay dead upon the bier, felt his heart die within him.
Who acts: host, heart · What happens: be, lay, feel, die · To what, where: bier
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 (host, heart), 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 | 6 aghast | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 aghast | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 burg | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 burg | det |
| 5 | burg | burg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 aghast | obl |
| 6 | aghast | aghast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 host | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 host | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 host | det |
| 10 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 father | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 host | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 knight | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knight | det |
| 16 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 father | nmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 aghast | parataxis |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lay | xcomp |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 bier | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bier | det |
| 22 | bier | bier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 felt | punct |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lay | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 die | nsubj |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 felt | ccomp |
| 28 | within | within | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 die | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 aghast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | then | all burg obl; aghast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | the host | the bier | who nsubj; dead property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon bier=Destination | |||
| 3 | feel | past | the host not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | infinitive | knight's heart | within knight | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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