Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 33
The word ran through the hall; and the host turned him again to where he had left his guest, as if he marked naught.
Who acts: word, host · What happens: run, turn, leave, mark · To what, where: hall, guest, naught
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 (word, 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 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 host | det |
| 10 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 turned | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 18 left | mark |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 left | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | aux |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 turned | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 guest | nmod:poss |
| 20 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 marked | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 marked | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 marked | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 marked | nsubj |
| 25 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | conj |
| 26 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 25 marked | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the word | the hall | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the host | guest | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme he=Result | |||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | host | host's guest | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mark a condition, not said to happen | past | host | naught | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent naught=Destination |
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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