Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 55
This did he tell to his folk, and it pleased them well, and they spake with one mouth that he had found the best counsel.
Who acts: This, man, wise · What happens: tell, speak, find · To what, where: folk, best counsel · 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 (This, man, wise), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 folk | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 folk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleased | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pleased | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pleased | nsubj |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pleased | obj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 pleased | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spake | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spake | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spake | nsubj |
| 17 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 mouth | nummod |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spake | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 found | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | aux |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 spake | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 counsel | det |
| 26 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 counsel | amod |
| 27 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | This | wise's folk | wise nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to folk=Recipient | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | man | with one mouth | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mouth=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | past · perfect | wise | the best counsel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Topic |
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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