Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 26
And the right-hand way goeth to a wild waste land, wherein no man dwelleth; an I bethink me well 'tis over a year and a day since I saw man or woman come from thence.
Who acts: hand way, man, I · What happens: go, dwell, bethink, see, come · To what, where: wild waste land, me · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand way, man, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 goeth | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hand | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | compound |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goeth | nsubj |
| 7 | goeth | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 land | amod |
| 11 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 land | compound |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goeth | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dwelleth | punct |
| 14 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 dwelleth | advmod |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dwelleth | nsubj |
| 17 | dwelleth | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 land | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bethink | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bethink | det |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bethink | nsubj |
| 21 | bethink | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 goeth | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bethink | obj |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 bethink | advmod |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 tis | punct |
| 25 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bethink | obl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tis | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 day | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 day | det |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tis | conj |
| 32 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 34 saw | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 saw | nsubj |
| 34 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bethink | advcl |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 come | nsubj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 woman | cc |
| 37 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 man | conj |
| 38 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 saw | ccomp |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 thence | case |
| 40 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 38 come | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 goeth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the hand way | a wild waste land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | dwell | present | no man | wherein property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bethink | present | I | me | tis over a year and a day obl; well property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | come | present | man or woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from thence=Initial_Location |
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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