Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 72
Then Sir Gariët asked him: "Sir boatman, what aileth thee?
Who acts: Sir, Sir boatman · What happens: ask, ail · To what, where: Sir boatman, crossing, thee · 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 (Sir, Sir boatman), 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 | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | asked | ask | 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 asked | iobj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 boatman | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 boatman | punct |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 boatman | compound |
| 9 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aileth | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 aileth | nsubj |
| 12 | aileth | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 boatman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 aileth | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Sir | Sir boatman | crossing | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | ail in a quote | present | Sir boatman | thee | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient thou=Experiencer |
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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