Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 92
Their host quoth straightway, "He that had a boat at his will and a favouring wind might be there ere even."
Who acts: host, Sir, favouring wind · What happens: quoth, have, favour, be · To what, where: straightway, boat
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 (host, Sir, favouring wind), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 host | nmod:poss |
| 2 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quoth | nsubj |
| 3 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quoth | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 quoth | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boat | det |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 will | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 will | nmod:poss |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 there | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wind | det |
| 17 | favouring | favour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 wind | amod |
| 18 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 there | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 there | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 there | cop |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 will | conj |
| 22 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 23 even | advmod |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 there | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quoth | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | tidings's host | straightway | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | Sir | a boat | that nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient | |||
| 3 | favour in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | might | a favouring wind | there property | 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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