Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 47
Each saw the other's tears spring from their eyes and run down even to their beards when they parted asunder.
Who acts: Each, tears · What happens: see, spring, run down, part · To what, where: eyes, asunder
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 (Each, tears), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 other | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tears | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 other | case |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spring | nsubj |
| 7 | spring | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spring | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 run | cc |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spring | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 run | compound:prt |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 beards | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 beards | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beards | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beards | beard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 run | obl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 parted | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 parted | nsubj |
| 20 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | advcl |
| 21 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 parted | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Each | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | spring | present | the other's tears | tears's eyes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | run down | infinitive | the other's tears not said here | to tears's beards result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beard=Result | ||||
| 4 | part | past | tears = tear | asunder | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asunder=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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