Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 27
Then did Morien after his counsel, and abode there throughout the night, and told all the adventures that had befallen him.
Who acts: adventures · What happens: do, tell, befall · To what, where: Morien, adventures, hand · 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 (adventures), 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 | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 counsel | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 abode | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 abode | cc |
| 9 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | parataxis |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 abode | advmod |
| 11 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 abode | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 adventures | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 adventures | det |
| 19 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 befallen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 befallen | aux |
| 22 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 adventures | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 befallen | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Morien | after hand's counsel; then | abode throughout the night parataxis | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morien=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | all adventures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | befall | past · perfect | all adventures | hand | 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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