Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 15
Such was indeed his counsel, and he sore lamented his own evil plight.
Who acts: speed · What happens: be, lament, plight · To what, where: Such counsel, speed
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speed), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 counsel | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 counsel | cop |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 counsel | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 5 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lamented | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lamented | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lamented | nsubj |
| 9 | sore | sore | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lamented | aux:pass |
| 10 | lamented | lament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 counsel | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 plight | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plight | amod |
| 13 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plight | amod |
| 14 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lamented | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 counsel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | speed's Such counsel | speed nmod:poss; indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lament | past · passive | speed | speed's own evil plight obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | plight | speed | nom plight «state 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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