Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 45

The folk hath fled out of the land, none may withstand that beast, no shaft is so fell as the venom which he shooteth on all who near him; and the man whom it reacheth, and upon whom it shall light (I am he who lieth not), he dieth ere the third day be past, had he never a wound upon him.

Who acts: none, venom, folk, I, man, third day · What happens: flee, withstand, be, shoot, reach, light · To what, where: folk, land, beast, all, man

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 (none, venom, folk, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 folk	det
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fled	nsubj:pass
3	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fled	aux:pass
4	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 land	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 withstand	punct
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 withstand	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 withstand	aux
12	withstand	withstand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fled	conj
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 beast	det
14	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 withstand	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shaft	punct
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 shaft	det
17	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beast	conj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fell	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 fell	advmod
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fled	conj
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 venom	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 venom	det
23	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 shooteth	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shooteth	nsubj
26	shooteth	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 venom	acl:relcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 shooteth	obl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 all	nmod
30	near	near	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 who	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	64 had	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 had	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 had	nsubj
36	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 reacheth	obj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 reacheth	nsubj
38	reacheth	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 man	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 whom	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 whom	cc
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 whom	case
42	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 reacheth	obj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 light	nsubj
44	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 light	aux
45	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 whom	nsubj
46	(	(	PUNCT	_	51 lieth	punct
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 lieth	nsubj
48	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 lieth	cop
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 lieth	nsubj
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 lieth	nsubj
51	lieth	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 reacheth	conj
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 lieth	advmod
53	)	)	PUNCT	_	51 lieth	punct
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 dieth	punct
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 dieth	nsubj
56	dieth	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 reacheth	conj
57	ere	ere	ADV	_	56 dieth	advmod
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 day	det
59	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	60 day	amod
60	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 past	nsubj
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	62 past	cop
62	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 dieth	parataxis
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 man	punct
64	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fled	conj
65	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 wound	nsubj
66	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	68 wound	advmod
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 wound	det
68	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 had	obj
69	upon	upon	ADP	_	70 him	case
70	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 wound	nmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	present · passive		the folk		the land		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location
2	withstand	may	none	that beast and no shaft				tree rules
3	is	present					as the venom; fall property	tree rules
4	shoot	present	the venom			all	man nsubj	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on all=Destination
5	reach	present	folk		the man			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary whom=Theme
6	light	shall	folk					tree rules
7	not is	present	I				man nsubj; who nsubj; lie property	tree rules
8	die	present	man				ere property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	is	infinitive	the third day				past property	tree rules
10	have	past	the man					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	not wound		man				upon light	tree rules

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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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 45