Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 87
For sorrow at this hath Perceval betaken himself to a hermitage, thereof have tidings come to court, even as he willed that it should be made known.
Who acts: tidings, Perceval, court · What happens: have, betake, come, will, make, know · To what, where: Perceval, this, tidings, court
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 (tidings, Perceval, court), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 sorrow | case |
| 2 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hath | obl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hath | obl |
| 5 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 betaken | compound |
| 7 | betaken | betake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 himself | amod |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 hath | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hermitage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hermitage | det |
| 11 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hath | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 13 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 14 have | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hath | conj |
| 15 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 court | case |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 willed | punct |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 willed | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 willed | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 willed | nsubj |
| 23 | willed | will | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hath | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 made | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 made | aux:pass |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 willed | ccomp |
| 29 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 made | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Perceval | this | for sorrow; to a hermitage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | betake | participle | Perceval compound | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | tidings | thereof property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | tidings not said here | court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | will | past | Perceval | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make | should · passive | court | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | know | participle | court not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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