Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 41
Twixt constraint and ill-fortune the night seemed to him over long; though he feared him no whit yet he deemed his end was come.
Who acts: Twixt constraint, Sir · What happens: seem, fear, deem, come · To what, where: Sir, Gawain, end
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 (Twixt constraint, 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 | Twixt | Twixt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 constraint | compound |
| 2 | constraint | constraint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fortune | cc |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fortune | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 constraint | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seemed | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 seemed | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 feared | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 feared | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feared | nsubj |
| 17 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seemed | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feared | obj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 whit | det |
| 20 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feared | obj |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 deemed | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 deemed | nsubj |
| 23 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 feared | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 end | nmod:poss |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux:pass |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 deemed | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Twixt constraint and ill fortune | Sir | long property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fear | past | Sir | Gawain | no whit obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | deem | past | Sir | yet | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past · passive | Sir's end | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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