Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 61
Then answered Morien: "Ye have found the best counsel that may be devised.
What happens: answer, find, devise · To what, where: Morien, Ye, best counsel · 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: 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 answered | advmod |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 6 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 counsel | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 counsel | amod |
| 11 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 devised | obj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 devised | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 devised | aux:pass |
| 15 | devised | devise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 counsel | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Morien | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Ye | the best counsel obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme counsel=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | devise in a quote | may · passive | the best counsel | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: that=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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