Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 69

The adventure doeth us to wit that in the morning, so soon as it was day, they rode forth together through many a waste land, over many a heath and high hill, adown many a valley to seek Sir Perceval, but little did it profit them, for of him might they learn naught.

Who acts: adventure, hands, little · What happens: do, wit, be, ride, seek, learn · To what, where: us, many valley, waste land, Sir, Adventure, naught

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventure, hands, little), 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 adventure	det
2	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doeth	nsubj
3	doeth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 doeth	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wit	mark
6	wit	wit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 doeth	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 morning	mark
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wit	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 soon	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 doeth	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 day	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 day	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 day	cop
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soon	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rode	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rode	nsubj
20	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 doeth	parataxis
21	forth	forth	ADV	_	20 rode	advmod
22	together	together	ADV	_	20 rode	advmod
23	through	through	ADP	_	27 land	case
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 land	nsubj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 land	det
26	waste	waste	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 land	amod
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rode	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 heath	punct
29	over	over	ADP	_	32 heath	case
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 heath	amod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 heath	det
32	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rode	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hill	cc
34	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hill	amod
35	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heath	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 adown	punct
37	adown	adown	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heath	conj
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 valley	amod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 valley	det
40	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rode	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 seek	mark
42	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 rode	advcl
43	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 seek	obj
44	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Sir	flat
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 did	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 did	cc
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 did	nsubj
48	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 learn	advcl
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 did	obj
50	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 did	obj
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 profit	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 him	punct
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 him	case
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 him	case
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 learn	obl
56	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 learn	aux
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 learn	nsubj
58	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 rode	parataxis
59	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	58 learn	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 doeth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the adventure	us			soon property	tree rules
2	wit	to-infinitive	the adventure not said here			morning		tree rules
3	is	past	Adventure			as day		tree rules
4	ride	past	hands = hand	a many valley	a waste land		over a many heath and high hill and adown; forth, together property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through land=Trajectory
5	seek	to-infinitive	hands = hand not said here	Sir				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sir=Theme
6	do	past	little	Adventure			profit hands obj	tree rules
7	learn	might	hands = hand	naught			for Sir	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Topic

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 2, sentence 69

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 69