Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 54
This seemeth to me the wisest rede in this matter, howsoe'er it stand!"
Who acts: This, wisest, howsoe'er · What happens: seem, rede, stand · To what, where: me, matter, howsoe'er
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 (This, wisest, howsoe'er), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seemeth | nsubj |
| 2 | seemeth | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 seemeth | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rede | det |
| 6 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 rede | nsubj |
| 7 | rede | rede | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemeth | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 matter | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 matter | det |
| 10 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rede | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 howsoe'er | punct |
| 12 | howsoe'er | howsoe'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 matter | appos |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stand | nsubj |
| 14 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 12 howsoe'er | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 howsoe'er | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 howsoe'er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | This | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rede | infinitive | wisest | this matter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | howsoe'er | howsoe'er not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer howsoe'er=Stimulus |
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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