Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 74

I have ridden all this day, and have seen naught save wilderness and waste land, and there found I no man with whom I might abide the night."

Who acts: I, naught · What happens: ride, see, save, find, abide · To what, where: wilderness, I

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 (I, naught), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ridden	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ridden	aux
3	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det:predet
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ridden	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 save	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 save	cc
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 naught	amod
11	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 save	nsubj
12	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ridden	advcl
13	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 save	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 land	cc
15	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 land	compound
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wilderness	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 found	expl
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ridden	parataxis
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 found	obj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 abide	obl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 abide	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 abide	aux
28	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 man	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 abide	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ridden	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 ridden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present · perfect	I			day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	see	present · perfect						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	save	infinitive	naught	wilderness and waste land				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wilderness=Theme
4	find	past		I	there		no man obj	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme man=Attribute
5	abide	might	I			night	with no man	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 5, sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 74