Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 71
He who had brought him thither had forgat him upon that field, his journey had been dearly bought and he lay there dead in the green grass.
Who acts: man · What happens: bring, have, buy, lie, journey · To what, where: man, forgat, journey, green grass
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 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 7 had | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | advcl |
| 8 | forgat | forgat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 forgat | obj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgat | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bought | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 journey | nmod:poss |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bought | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 bought | aux:pass |
| 18 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 19 bought | advmod |
| 19 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brought | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lay | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bought | conj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 lay | advmod |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lay | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 grass | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 grass | det |
| 27 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 grass | amod |
| 28 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | man | who nsubj:pass; Gringalet obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | forgat Gringalet | upon that field; thither property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | buy | past · perfect · passive | man's journey | dearly property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | man | the green grass; there | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location | |||
| 5 | journey | man | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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