Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 28
For there shall ye find the most fell beast ever man heard or read of; take ye good heed thereof, 'tis the Foul Fiend himself, that know I well, that roameth in the guise of a beast.
Who acts: ye, that, Foul Fiend · What happens: find, fall, hear, read, take, know · To what, where: beast, man, ye, I, Foul Fiend, guise · 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 (ye, that, Foul Fiend), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 there | case |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 find | obl |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fell | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 fell | advmod |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | ccomp |
| 9 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obj |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 man | advmod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | acl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 read | cc |
| 14 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 heard | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 read | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 find | conj |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heed | amod |
| 20 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 21 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 17 take | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tis | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 tis | punct |
| 24 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Fiend | det |
| 26 | Foul | Foul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Fiend | compound |
| 27 | Fiend | Fiend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 tis | appos |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 Fiend | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 know | nsubj |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Fiend | conj |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 know | obj |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 know | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 roameth | punct |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 roameth | nsubj |
| 36 | roameth | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Fiend | acl:relcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 guise | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 guise | det |
| 39 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 roameth | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 beast | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 beast | det |
| 42 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 guise | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | shall | ye | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | beast | man obl | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient beast=Result | ||||
| 3 | hear | participle | man not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | read | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | ye not said here | ye | good heed obj; tis obj; thereof property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | know | present | that | I | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | roam | present | the Foul Fiend man | the Foul Fiend man not said here | the guise of a beast | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fiend=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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