Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 10
Then he brought forth more than seven loaves, white as snow, that he had with him, and laid them upon the napkin before the knights.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: bring, have, lay · To what, where: seven loaves, loaves, napkin
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 seven | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 loaves | nummod |
| 8 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 white | punct |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 loaves | amod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 snow | case |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 white | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 laid | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 laid | cc |
| 21 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 laid | obj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 napkin | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 napkin | det |
| 25 | napkin | napkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 laid | obl |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 knights | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 knights | det |
| 28 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 laid | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Sir | seven loaves | then | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme | ||
| 2 | have | past | Sir | with Gawain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | Sir not said here | loaves = loaf | the napkin | before the knights | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon napkin=Destination |
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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