Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 47
They were loth to own that he was evil and cruel of heart.
Who acts: friends, knight · What happens: be, own
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 (friends, knight), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loth | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loth | cop |
| 3 | loth | loth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 own | mark |
| 5 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 loth | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 evil | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 evil | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 evil | cop |
| 9 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 own | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cruel | cc |
| 11 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 evil | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cruel | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | friends = friend | loth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | own | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | past | knight | evil property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | knight not said here | of heart | tree rules |
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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