Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 70
Never was a man more oppressed with hunger and thirst and weariness; and he thought in his heart that he could do naught better than ride thither, and see if by hap he might find lodging for the night.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: not oppress, think, do, ride, see, find · To what, where: man, heart, naught · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 oppressed | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 oppressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oppressed | nsubj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 oppressed | advmod |
| 6 | oppressed | oppress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hunger | case |
| 8 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oppressed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thirst | cc |
| 10 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunger | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 weariness | cc |
| 12 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunger | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 oppressed | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 do | xcomp |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 27 ride | mark |
| 27 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 better | advcl |
| 28 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 27 ride | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 see | cc |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thought | conj |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 find | mark |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 hap | case |
| 34 | hap | hap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 find | obl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 find | nsubj |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 find | aux |
| 37 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 see | advcl |
| 38 | lodging | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 find | xcomp |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 night | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 night | det |
| 41 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lodging | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 oppressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not oppress | past · passive | a man | with hunger and thirst and weariness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Sir | Sir's heart | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | could | Sir | naught | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | ride | infinitive | Sir not said here | thither property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | Sir not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | find a condition, not said to happen | might | Sir | by hap | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | lodge | gerund | Sir not said here | night | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=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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