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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 30

Now hath the beast chosen his dwelling in a little forest, there will he abide all night, but the day he prowleth by straight and winding ways.

Who acts: beast, man · What happens: have, choose, abide, prowl, wind · To what, where: beast, dwelling, little forest, ways

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 (beast, man), 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

advmoddetobjaclnmod:possobjcasedetamodoblpunctexplauxnsubjconjdetobl:unmarkedpunctccdetobl:unmarkednsubjparataxiscaseoblccconjobjpunctrootNowADVhathVERBtheDETbeastNOUNchosenVERBhisPRONdwellingNOUNinADPaDETlittleADJforestNOUN,PUNCTtherePRONwillAUXhePRONabideVERBallDETnightNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETdayNOUNhePRONprowlethVERBbyADPstraightADVandCCONJwindingVERBwaysNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem2 hathadvmod
2hathhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 beastdet
4beastbeastNOUNNumber=Sing2 hathobj
5chosenchooseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 beastacl
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 dwellingnmod:poss
7dwellingdwellingNOUNNumber=Sing5 chosenobj
8ininADP_11 forestcase
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 forestdet
10littlelittleADJDegree=Pos11 forestamod
11forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing5 chosenobl
12,,PUNCT_16 abidepunct
13theretherePRONPronType=Dem16 abideexpl
14willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin16 abideaux
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 abidensubj
16abideabideVERBVerbForm=Inf2 hathconj
17allallDETPronType=Tot18 nightdet
18nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing16 abideobl:unmarked
19,,PUNCT_24 prowlethpunct
20butbutCCONJ_24 prowlethcc
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 daydet
22daydayNOUNNumber=Sing24 prowlethobl:unmarked
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 prowlethnsubj
24prowlethprowlVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 hathparataxis
25bybyADP_26 straightcase
26straightstraightADV_24 prowlethobl
27andandCCONJ_28 windingcc
28windingwindVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part24 prowlethconj
29wayswayNOUNNumber=Plur28 windingobj
30..PUNCT_2 hathpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentthe beastnowvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient
2chooseparticiplethe beast not said hereman's dwellinga little forestvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwelling=Theme
3abidefuturemantherenighttree rules
4prowlpresentmandayvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by straight=Trajectory
5windgerundman not said herewaysvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=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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