Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 15
And all the day he met no man of whom he might ask concerning his father; 'twas labour wasted, for all who saw him fled from him.
Who acts: Morien, twas labour, all · What happens: meet, ask, concern, waste, see, flee · To what, where: man, father, Morien
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morien, twas labour, all), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 met | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ask | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 ask | aux |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 14 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 ask | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 concerning | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 wasted | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 twas | punct |
| 19 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 labour | compound |
| 20 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wasted | nsubj |
| 21 | wasted | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 all | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 fled | nsubj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 all | acl:relcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | obj |
| 28 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wasted | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fled | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Morien | no man | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | might | Morien | of no man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of whom=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | concern not said to happen | gerund | Morien not said here | Morien's father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | waste | past | twas labour | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | see | past | Morien | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | flee | past | all | from Morien | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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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