Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 29
The host, sorely mourning, bade them pour out clear wine, and make ready a fair couch whereon he might sleep even as he had the will thereto.
Who acts: host · What happens: pour out, make, sleep, have · To what, where: clear wine, fair couch
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host), 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 host | det |
| 2 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pour | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mourning | punct |
| 4 | sorely | sorely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mourning | amod |
| 5 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 host | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bade | punct |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 host | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pour | nsubj |
| 9 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 pour | advmod |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wine | amod |
| 12 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pour | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pour | conj |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 couch | det |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 couch | amod |
| 19 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 20 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 sleep | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sleep | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sleep | aux |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | parataxis |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 had | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 had | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sleep | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 will | det |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | advcl |
| 30 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 29 will | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour out | present | the host and sorely mourning and bade | clear wine | beds = bed nsubj; out property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | the host and sorely mourning and bade not said here | a fair couch | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset couch=Product | |||
| 3 | sleep | might | host | whereon property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | host | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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