Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 92
Never might man behold a fairer maiden, and the land was all in her own power.
Who acts: land · What happens: be · To what, where: own power, man
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 (land), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 man | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 man | aux |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | behold | behold | ADP | _ | 7 maiden | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 6 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 maiden | amod |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 power | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 power | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 power | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 power | cop |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 power | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 power | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 power | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 power | amod |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the land | sware's own power | sware nmod:poss; all 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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