Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 29
But that which grieved him the most was his sorrow for his good sword which he had thus lost, for it was a sword of choice.
Who acts: that, sorrow · What happens: grieve, be, lose · To what, where: Sir, sorrow, good sword
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 (that, sorrow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 grieved | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 grieved | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 grieved | nsubj |
| 4 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grieved | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sorrow | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 sorrow | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorrow | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grieved | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sword | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sword | amod |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorrow | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lost | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lost | aux |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 19 lost | advmod |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sword | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sword | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 sword | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sword | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sword | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sword | det |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grieved | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 choice | case |
| 27 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sword | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past | that | Sir | which nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Sir's sorrow | for Sir's good sword; Sir nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect · passive | Sir's good sword | Sir nsubj; thus property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | sorrow | for a sword; of choice | 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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