Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 48
So soon as they saw the fair day light the host took counsel with his folk that they might advise him well by what means, and in what way, they might avenge themselves for their heavy loss.
Who acts: friends, host · What happens: see, take, advise, mean, avenge · To what, where: fair day light, counsel, host, friends
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 light | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 light | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | compound |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 host | det |
| 11 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 13 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 folk | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 folk | nmod:poss |
| 16 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 advise | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 advise | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 advise | aux |
| 20 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 advise | obj |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 advise | advmod |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 means | mark |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 means | nsubj |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 advise | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 what | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 what | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 what | case |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 took | parataxis |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 what | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 avenge | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 avenge | nsubj |
| 33 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 avenge | aux |
| 34 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saw | conj |
| 35 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 avenge | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 loss | case |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 loss | nmod:poss |
| 38 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 loss | amod |
| 39 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 avenge | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | friends = friend | the fair day light | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | take | past | the host | counsel | with host's folk; what way parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | advise speech: other | might | friends = friend | host | well property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | mean | present | what nsubj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | avenge | might | friends = friend | friends = friend | for friends's heavy loss | 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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