Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 35
He had neither eaten nor drunk since that he rode thence; his head was dazed with hunger and with grief.
Who acts: man · What happens: eat, drink, ride, daze · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 3 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 4 eaten | advmod |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 drunk | cc |
| 6 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 eaten | conj |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 rode | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 rode | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rode | nsubj |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | advcl |
| 11 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 10 rode | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 dazed | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dazed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dazed | aux:pass |
| 16 | dazed | daze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 eaten | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hunger | case |
| 18 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dazed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 grief | cc |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 grief | case |
| 21 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunger | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | man | neither property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drink | participle | man not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | man | thence property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | daze | past · passive | man's head | with hunger and grief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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