Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 48
Were a man sick he might well be healed by the light that streamed forth from within, for, as he saw and looked upon it, it seemed as it might well be Heaven.
Who acts: man, light, door, it, ironwork · What happens: be, heal, stream, see, look, seem · To what, where: door · 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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, light, door, it), 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sick | cop |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sick | nsubj |
| 4 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 healed | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 healed | aux |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 healed | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 healed | aux:pass |
| 9 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sick | ccomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 light | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 healed | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 streamed | nsubj |
| 14 | streamed | stream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 light | acl:relcl |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 streamed | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 within | case |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 14 streamed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 within | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 within | case |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 saw | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 healed | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looked | cc |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 saw | conj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 looked | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 seemed | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 seemed | nsubj |
| 30 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 saw | ccomp |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 Heaven | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 Heaven | nsubj |
| 33 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 Heaven | aux |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 Heaven | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 Heaven | cop |
| 36 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 seemed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a man | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | heal | might · passive | the light | door | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | stream | past | the light | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from within=Source | ||||
| 4 | see | past | door | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | look | past | door not said here | upon ironwork | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | might | ironwork | as Heaven; well property | tree rules |
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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