Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 6
This they did that he might be the more sorrowful when he beheld his horse, which he had now lost, and his own life withal!
Who acts: This, Sir · What happens: do, be, behold, lose · To what, where: horse
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 (This, Sir), 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 | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 sorrowful | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorrowful | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sorrowful | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sorrowful | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 sorrowful | advmod |
| 10 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | advcl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 beheld | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beheld | nsubj |
| 13 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorrowful | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beheld | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lost | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | aux |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 lost | advmod |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 horse | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 withal | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 withal | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 life | amod |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 withal | compound |
| 27 | withal | withal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | conj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | smart nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | might | Sir | sorrowful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | Sir | Sir's horse | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect · passive | Sir's horse | now | Sir nsubj | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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