Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 50
And he thought within himself that since those steps were so fair he might well set foot thereon, and tell the tale of them, how many they might be, that hereafter he might speak of the great marvel he had seen.
Who acts: stairway, steps, many, men · What happens: think, be, set, tell, speak, see · To what, where: foot, tale, hereafter, great marvel · 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 (stairway, steps, many, men), 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 | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 fair | mark |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 fair | mark |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 steps | det |
| 9 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fair | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fair | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 fair | advmod |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 set | advmod |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fair | csubj |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obj |
| 18 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tell | cc |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tale | det |
| 23 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tell | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tale | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hereafter | punct |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 many | advmod |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hereafter | nsubj |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hereafter | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 hereafter | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hereafter | cop |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hereafter | punct |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 hereafter | det |
| 34 | hereafter | hereafter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tell | obl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 speak | nsubj |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 speak | aux |
| 37 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hereafter | acl:relcl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 marvel | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 marvel | det |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 marvel | amod |
| 41 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 speak | obl |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 seen | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 seen | aux |
| 44 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 marvel | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | stairway | within stairway | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that steps | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | might | stairway | foot | thereon, well property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | stairway not said here | the tale of men | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | might | many | that hereafter | men = man nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | speak speech: other | might | stairway | that hereafter not said here | of the great marvel | tree rules | |||
| 7 | see | past · perfect | stairway | the great marvel not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marvel=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | tell | men = man | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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