Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 51
But as he had counted sixty, and would set foot upon the next, lo! he saw none of all those he had left below him, save that upon which he stood, and on which his foot was set, and above him he saw naught.
Who acts: stairway · What happens: count, set, see, leave, stand · To what, where: sixty, foot, next, none, naught
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 counted | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 counted | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 counted | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 counted | aux |
| 5 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 saw | advcl |
| 6 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 counted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | aux |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 counted | advcl |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 next | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 next | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lo | punct |
| 16 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 10 set | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 counted | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 those | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 those | det:predet |
| 23 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 none | nmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 left | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 left | aux |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 those | acl:relcl |
| 27 | below | below | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 left | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 those | punct |
| 30 | save | save | ADP | _ | 31 that | case |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 stood | obl |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 stood | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 stood | nsubj |
| 35 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 those | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 set | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 set | cc |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 set | obl |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 foot | nmod:poss |
| 41 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 set | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 set | aux:pass |
| 43 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 saw | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 saw | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 saw | cc |
| 46 | above | above | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 saw | obl |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 saw | nsubj |
| 49 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | conj |
| 50 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 49 saw | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past · perfect | stairway | sixty | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixty=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | would | stairway not said here | foot | the next | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon next=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past | stairway | none of those | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect | stairway | below door | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent below he=Location | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | stairway | which obl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon which=Location | ||||
| 6 | set | past · passive | stairway's foot | which obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on which=Destination | ||||
| 7 | see | past | stairway | naught | above stairway | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer naught=Stimulus |
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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