Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 46
For though the knight had well deserved his death yet had he there many friends who lamented the loss that they had thereby suffered.
Who acts: knight, many friends, friends · What happens: deserve, have, friend, lament, suffer, die · To what, where: knight, loss
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 (knight, many friends, friends), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 deserved | mark |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 deserved | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deserved | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 deserved | aux |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 deserved | advmod |
| 7 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 had | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deserved | obj |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 friends | nsubj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 friends | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friends | amod |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lamented | nsubj |
| 17 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 friends | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 loss | det |
| 19 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lamented | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 suffered | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 suffered | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 suffered | aux |
| 23 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 24 suffered | advmod |
| 24 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 lamented | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | past · perfect · passive | the knight | knight's death obj; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | friend | knight | there | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lament | past | many friends | the loss | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | suffer | past · perfect | friends = friend | thereby property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | die | knight | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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