Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 60
So sat they down together, and each bade the other welcome, and made much joy of their meeting.
Who acts: bade · What happens: sit down, welcome, make, joy · To what, where: Knight, much joy, meeting
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 (bade), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 welcome | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 welcome | cc |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 bade | det |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 welcome | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 welcome | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 welcome | amod |
| 12 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 joy | amod |
| 17 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 meeting | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 meeting | nmod:poss |
| 20 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joy | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Knight | together property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | welcome | each bade | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | much joy of Knight's meeting | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joy=Product | |||||
| 4 | joy | Knight's meeting | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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