Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 93
And when I had brought them to the other side the knight, who was glad thereof, asked me if I knew where stood a hermitage wherein a hermit dwelt.
Who acts: I, knight, hermit · What happens: bring, be, ask, know, stand, dwell · To what, where: tears, other side, me, hermitage · 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, knight, hermit), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knight | det |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glad | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 glad | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 glad | cop |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knight | nmod |
| 17 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 16 glad | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 knew | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 asked | advcl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 stood | advmod |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 knew | ccomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hermitage | det |
| 27 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | obj |
| 28 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 dwelt | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hermit | det |
| 30 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dwelt | nsubj |
| 31 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hermitage | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect | I | tears = tear | the other side | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to side=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the knight | glad, thereof property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | stand | past | a hermitage | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hermitage=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | dwell | past | a hermit | wherein property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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