Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 72
He was all black, even as I tell ye: his head, his body, and his hands were all black, saving only his teeth.
Who acts: knight, I, hands · What happens: be, tell, save · To what, where: head, ye, teeth · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, I, hands), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 black | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 black | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 black | det |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 tell | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 black | conj |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 head | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 body | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 black | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 black | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 black | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 black | cop |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 black | det |
| 23 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 black | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saving | punct |
| 25 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 black | advcl |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 teeth | advmod |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 28 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 saving | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | knight | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | I | knight's head and knight's body | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient head=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | past | knight's hands | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | save | gerund | knight's hands not said here | knight's teeth | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme |
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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