Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 31
Nor should they tarry in any land more than one night or two.
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Nor | nor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tarry | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tarry | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tarry | nsubj |
| 4 | tarry | tarry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tarry | obl |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 tarry | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 night | nummod |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 more | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 two | cc |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 night | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tarry | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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