Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 92
I saw that the one wept so that the tears fell thick adown his face.
Who acts: I, one, tears · What happens: see, weep, fall · To what, where: thick adown · 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 (I, one, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 wept | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wept | nsubj |
| 6 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 11 fell | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 fell | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tears | det |
| 10 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wept | advcl |
| 12 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adown | amod |
| 13 | adown | adown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 adown | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | the one | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the tears | thick adown land's face | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient adown=Result |
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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