Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 50
Had he not chosen his lair, and did he wander from the land, as well might be, by the Lord who made us he had laid the world waste!
Who acts: Fiend · What happens: have, not choose, wander, be, make, lay · To what, where: lair, land, us, world waste
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 (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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chosen | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 chosen | advmod |
| 4 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Had | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chosen | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wander | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wander | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wander | aux |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wander | nsubj |
| 11 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Had | parataxis |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wander | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 be | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 19 be | cc |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wander | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Lord | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lord | det |
| 23 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Had | conj |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 laid | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 laid | aux |
| 29 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 made | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 waste | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 waste | compound |
| 32 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laid | obj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not choose | participle | Fiend | Fiend's lair | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lair=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wander | past · do-support | Fiend | the land | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from land=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | be | might | Fiend not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | past | us | by the Lord; who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lay | past · perfect | Fiend | the world waste | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Result |
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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