Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 16

They were above measure joyful, those three knights, at that time, and with them the hermit, for they would in no wise forget him, but he must eat and drink with them.

Who acts: Twas, Sir · What happens: be, forget, eat, drink · To what, where: Sir

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 (Twas, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joyful	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 joyful	cop
3	above	above	ADP	_	5 joyful	case
4	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joyful	compound
5	joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knights	punct
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 knights	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 knights	nummod
9	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 joyful	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 time	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knights	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 them	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 them	cc
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joyful	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hermit	det
19	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 them	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 forget	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 would	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 would	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 forget	aux
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 wise	case
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 wise	det
26	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 would	obl
27	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hermit	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 forget	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eat	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 eat	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 eat	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 eat	aux
33	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 forget	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 drink	cc
35	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 eat	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 drink	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 joyful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Twas = twa		that three knights and that time obl; knights = knight conj; joyful property	tree rules
2	forget	would		Sir		tree rules
3	eat	must	Sir			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	infinitive	Sir not said here		with Twas = twa	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 16