Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 15
Twas right welcome to them who now partook of it; and through these good victuals forgat they all their tribulation, as they ate and drank.
Who acts: right welcome, Twas · What happens: partake, eat, drink, tribulate · To what, where: victuals forgat, right welcome
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 (right welcome, Twas), 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 welcome | nsubj |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 welcome | amod |
| 3 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 welcome | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 partook | nsubj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 partook | advmod |
| 8 | partook | partake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 welcome | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 partook | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 forgat | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forgat | cc |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 forgat | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 forgat | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 victuals | amod |
| 16 | victuals | victual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 forgat | compound |
| 17 | forgat | forgat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 welcome | conj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ate | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 tribulation | det:predet |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tribulation | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tribulation | tribulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 they | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ate | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 ate | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ate | nsubj |
| 25 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forgat | acl:relcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 drank | cc |
| 27 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ate | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | partake | past | right welcome Twas to Twas and this victuals forgat | now | of food | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | past | Twas = twa | this victuals forgat not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drink | past | Twas = twa not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tribulate | Twas = twa | nom tribulation «event 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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