Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 74
Now hath my lady the queen taken counsel, and sent messengers far and near into every land to seek ye and Lancelot in this her sore need.
Who acts: queen, Lady · What happens: have, take, send, seek, need · To what, where: lady, counsel, messengers, land, ye, sore need
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 (queen, Lady), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 hath | advmod |
| 2 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lady | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hath | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hath | obj |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 queen | acl |
| 8 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hath | parataxis |
| 12 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sent | obj |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 messengers | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 near | cc |
| 15 | near | near | ADV | _ | 13 far | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seek | mark |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sent | advcl |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 seek | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Lancelot | cc |
| 23 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ye | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 need | case |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 need | nsubj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 need | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 need | amod |
| 28 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | my lady | now | the queen obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | participle | the queen not said here | counsel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | past | messengers | every land | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | ye Lancelot | Lady's sore need this | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ye=Theme in need=Location | ||||
| 5 | need | Lady | nom need «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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