Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 26
Neither bread, meat, nor wine had they; naught remained to the hermit, he had given the knights all his store.
Who acts: bread, naught · What happens: have, remain, give · To what, where: arms, hermit
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 (bread, naught), 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 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 bread | det |
| 2 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meat | punct |
| 4 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bread | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wine | punct |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 wine | cc |
| 7 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bread | conj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 remained | punct |
| 11 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 remained | nsubj |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hermit | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hermit | det |
| 15 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remained | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 given | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 remained | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knights | det |
| 21 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 given | obj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 store | det:predet |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 store | nmod:poss |
| 24 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | neither bread and meat nor wine | arms = arm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | naught | to the hermit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | hermit | the knights obj; hermit's store parataxis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient knight=Theme |
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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