Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 97
Thus left they the boatman, who was much rejoiced to be safely quit of them.
Who acts: tears · What happens: leave, rejoice, quit · To what, where: boatman
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 (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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 left | advmod |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boatman | det |
| 5 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rejoiced | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 rejoiced | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rejoiced | aux:pass |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 rejoiced | advmod |
| 10 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 boatman | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 quit | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 quit | aux:pass |
| 13 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 14 quit | advmod |
| 14 | quit | quit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rejoiced | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 quit | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | tears = tear | the boatman | thus property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boatman=Theme | |||
| 2 | rejoice | past · passive | the boatman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | quit | to-infinitive · passive | of tears = tear; safely property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V» |
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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