Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 70
Morien's counsel seemed to them good, and although he were not fair to look upon yet when he stood upon his feet it seemed to them that had he the chance he might put to the rout a whole army!
Who acts: counsel, it, feet · What happens: seem, not be, look, stand, have, put · To what, where: matters, feet, counsel, whole army
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsel, it, feet), 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 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Morien | case |
| 3 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seemed | obl |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fair | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fair | cc |
| 10 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 14 fair | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fair | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fair | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fair | advmod |
| 14 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seemed | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fair | csubj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 yet | case |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 look | advmod |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 stood | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | advcl |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stood | obl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seemed | nsubj |
| 26 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 feet | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seemed | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 feet | acl:relcl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 chance | det |
| 33 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 put | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 put | aux |
| 36 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 chance | acl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 rout | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rout | det |
| 39 | rout | rout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 put | obl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 army | det |
| 41 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 army | amod |
| 42 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 put | obj |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Morien's counsel | matters = matter | good property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is | past | counsel | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | stand | past | counsel | counsel's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon foot=Location | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | it | counsel's feet not said here | matters = matter | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Attribute | |||
| 6 | have | past | counsel's feet | counsel | the chance obj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | put | might | counsel | a whole army | to the rout | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent army=Goal |
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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