Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 21

They held there within that which they deemed many would buy dearly, nor count the gold therefor, nor might they well tell how they had lost it.

Who acts: Matters, many · What happens: hold, deem, buy, count, tell, lose · To what, where: gold therefor, therefor · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matters, many), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 held	advmod
4	within	within	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 held	obl
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 deemed	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 deemed	nsubj
8	deemed	deem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 buy	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 buy	aux
11	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 deemed	xcomp
12	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	11 buy	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 count	punct
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 count	cc
15	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 buy	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 therefor	det
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 therefor	compound
18	therefor	therefor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 count	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 tell	cc
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 tell	advmod
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 held	parataxis
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 lost	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lost	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lost	aux
28	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 tell	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lost	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	Matters = matter		there	within that	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	deem	past	Matters = matter			which obj	tree rules
3	buy	would	many			dearly property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	count	infinitive	many not said here	the gold therefor			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent therefor=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	might	Matters = matter			well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lose	past · perfect	Matters = matter	therefor			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 21

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 21