Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 7
Of a truth it seemed to me, by their features and by their gestures, that they should be brothers.
Who acts: it, letters · What happens: seem, be, feature, gesture · To what, where: me, brothers
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 (it, letters), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 truth | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seemed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 features | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 features | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 features | nmod:poss |
| 11 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seemed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gestures | cc |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 gestures | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gestures | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gestures | gesture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 features | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brothers | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 brothers | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 brothers | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 brothers | cop |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seemed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | me | of a truth; by letters's features and letters's gestures | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | should | letters = letter | brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feature | letters = letter | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | gesture | letters = letter | nom gesture «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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