Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 32
Then said all who saw it it booted not to seek another man, they were well assured 'twas their guest had slain him.
Who acts: whit · What happens: say, see, boot, not seek, assure, slay · To what, where: whit, man, guest · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whit), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 saw | advmod |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 booted | nsubj |
| 8 | booted | boot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 seek | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seek | mark |
| 11 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 booted | ccomp |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seek | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 assured | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 assured | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 assured | aux:pass |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 assured | advmod |
| 18 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seek | parataxis |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 twas | punct |
| 20 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 slain | obl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 guest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 slain | aux |
| 24 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 assured | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 slain | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | past | whit | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | boot | past | whit | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not seek | to-infinitive | whit not said here | another man | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 5 | assure | past · passive | man | well property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | slay | past · perfect · passive | man's guest | twas obl; host obj | 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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