Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 90
Twas to them an unknown land; that did I hear well from their speech.
Who acts: unknown land, knights · What happens: hear, speak · To what, where: unknown land, speech · 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 (unknown land, knights), 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 land | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Twas | nmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 5 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 land | amod |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hear | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hear | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 land | acl:relcl |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 hear | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 speech | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 speech | nmod:poss |
| 15 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 land | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | a unknown land Twas to knights | a unknown land Twas to knights not said here | knights's speech | I nsubj; well property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent land=Topic from speech=Source | ||
| 3 | speak | knights = knight | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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