Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 102
Then Sir Gariët spake, and said that an it were pleasing to them, they would fain have speech with the hermit and with Sir Agloval.
Who acts: spake, steeds, Sir spake · What happens: say, please, fain, have · To what, where: steeds, Sir spake, speech · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (spake, steeds, Sir spake), 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 | 4 spake | advmod |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spake | compound |
| 3 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fain | parataxis |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 pleasing | mark |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 it | reparandum |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pleasing | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pleasing | aux |
| 12 | pleasing | please | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pleasing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fain | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fain | aux |
| 18 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spake | acl:relcl |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 hermit | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hermit | det |
| 23 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 speech | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Sir | cc |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Sir | case |
| 26 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hermit | conj |
| 27 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Sir | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | please | past · progressive | spake = speak | steeds = steed | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fain | would | steeds = steed | Sir spake not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Sir spake | speech | with the hermit and Sir | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=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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