Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 62

For this, if for no other reason, the poem would, it seems to me, be worth introducing to a wider circle of readers than that to which in its present form it can appeal.

Who acts: it, poem · What happens: seem, be, introduce, appeal, form · To what, where: me, present form

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, poem), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 worth	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 worth	mark
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 reason	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 reason	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reason	amod
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 worth	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 poem	det
11	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 worth	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 worth	aux
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 would	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seems	nsubj
15	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 would	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 seems	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 would	punct
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 worth	cop
20	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	introducing	introduce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 worth	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 circle	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 circle	det
24	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 circle	amod
25	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 introducing	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 readers	case
27	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 circle	nmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 that	case
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 introducing	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	35 form	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 form	nsubj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 form	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 form	nmod:poss
34	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 form	amod
35	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 introducing	obl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 appeal	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 appeal	aux
38	appeal	appeal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 form	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	it		me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	would	the poem			for this; for no other reason; worth property	tree rules
3	introduce	gerund	the poem not said here			to a wider circle of readers; than that; to poem's present form	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to circle=Co-Patient
4	appeal	can	poem	poem's present form not said here			tree rules
5	form		poem				nom form «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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 62

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 62