Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 31
He devoureth man and beast alike, nor may I tell ye the marvels I have heard concerning him.
Who acts: man, I · What happens: devour, tell, hear, concern · To what, where: man, marvels, ye · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 devoureth | nsubj |
| 2 | devoureth | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 devoureth | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beast | cc |
| 5 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 6 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 2 devoureth | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 tell | cc |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 devoureth | parataxis |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 marvels | det |
| 14 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tell | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | aux |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 heard | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 concerning | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 devoureth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | present | man | man and beast | alike property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | may | I | the marvels | ye | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hear | present · perfect | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | concern | gerund | I not said here | man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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