Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 96
Then did the boatman shew them the way they should ride thence to where the hermitage stood, and declared to them the road.
Who acts: boatman, tears, hermitage · What happens: shew, ride, stand, declare · To what, where: tears, way, road
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 (boatman, tears, hermitage), 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 | 5 shew | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shew | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boatman | det |
| 4 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shew | nsubj |
| 5 | shew | shew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shew | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shew | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ride | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 ride | aux |
| 11 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl:relcl |
| 12 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 where | case |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hermitage | det |
| 16 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ride | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 declared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 declared | cc |
| 20 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stood | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 declared | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 declared | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shew | past · do-support | the boatman | tears = tear | then | the way obl:unmarked | tree rules | ||
| 2 | ride | should | tears = tear | the way not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the hermitage | thence property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | the hermitage not said here | the road | tears = tear | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent road=Theme to they=Recipient |
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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