Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 49
Sir Gariët alighted on the turf when he saw his brother; and as he came nigh to him he took him in his arms saying: "Alas, brother, woe is me!
Who acts: Gariët · What happens: alight, see, come, take, say, be · To what, where: Gariët, turf, brother, Sir, arms, Alas · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gariët), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gariët | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Gariët | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 turf | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 turf | det |
| 6 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 alighted | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | advcl |
| 17 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 arms | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arms | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | obl |
| 26 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 took | advcl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 Alas | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Alas | punct |
| 29 | Alas | Alas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 saying | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 brother | punct |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Alas | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 woe | punct |
| 33 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Alas | appos |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 me | cop |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 saying | ccomp |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle | Gariët Sir not said here | the turf | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Gariët Sir | Sir's brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Gariët | Sir | nigh property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | take | past | Gariët | Sir | Sir's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: express | gerund | Gariët not said here | Alas and brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent alas=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | Gariët | tree rules |
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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