Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 42
He knew well that the folk were evil-disposed and bare malice and rancour towards him for the sake of the dead man who lay there, in that they had seen his wounds bleed afresh, and had thereby known his slayer.
Who acts: Sir, dead man, constraint, wounds · What happens: know, dispose, lie, see, bleed, wound · To what, where: folk, slayer · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, dead man, constraint, wounds), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 disposed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 folk | det |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disposed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disposed | aux:pass |
| 8 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 disposed | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 evil | punct |
| 10 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 malice | cc |
| 12 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 malice | amod |
| 13 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disposed | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rancour | cc |
| 15 | rancour | rancour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 malice | conj |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 malice | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sake | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sake | det |
| 20 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disposed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sake | nmod |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lay | nsubj |
| 26 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | acl:relcl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 lay | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 seen | punct |
| 29 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 33 seen | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 seen | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 seen | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | aux |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 disposed | advcl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 bleed | nsubj |
| 36 | bleed | bleed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | ccomp |
| 37 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 bleed | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 known | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 known | cc |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 known | aux |
| 41 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 42 known | advmod |
| 42 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 knew | conj |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 slayer | nmod:poss |
| 44 | slayer | slayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 known | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Sir | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dispose | past · passive | the folk | for the sake of the dead man; bare malice towards Sir and rancour conj | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the dead man | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | constraint | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | bleed | present | Sir's wounds | afresh property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 6 | know | past · perfect | Sir not said here | Sir's slayer | thereby property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer slayer=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | wound | Sir | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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