Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 66
The bears, and the dragons, and the serpents that there lay in wait, know ye well that they gave sure and certain sign that the fiends deemed they had ye for their own in that hour, and would carry ye to Hell.'"
Who acts: serpents, fiends · What happens: lie, know, give, deem, have, carry · To what, where: wait, ye, sure sign, Hell, bears · 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 (serpents, fiends), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bears | det |
| 2 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragons | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dragons | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragons | det |
| 6 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bears | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 serpents | det |
| 10 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 know | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lay | advmod |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 serpents | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wait | case |
| 15 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 serpents | punct |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bears | parataxis |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 know | obj |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 know | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 gave | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | ccomp |
| 23 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sign | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 certain | cc |
| 25 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sure | conj |
| 26 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 deemed | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fiends | det |
| 29 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 deemed | nsubj |
| 30 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gave | advcl |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 deemed | ccomp |
| 33 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 had | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 own | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 own | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 had | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 hour | case |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 hour | det |
| 39 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 carry | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 carry | cc |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 carry | aux |
| 43 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 gave | conj |
| 44 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 carry | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 Hell | case |
| 46 | Hell | Hell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 carry | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the serpents | wait; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | present | the serpents | ye | well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | serpents = serpent | sure sign | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | ||||
| 4 | deem | past | the fiends | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | past | fiends = fiend | ye | hour | for fiends's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Patient | ||
| 6 | carry | would | serpents = serpent not said here | ye | Hell | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ye=Theme to hell=Destination |
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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