Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 19
That night had he neither rest nor slumber, nor found he place where he might shelter, or where it seemed to him he might ask for food or lodging beneath a roof.
Who acts: night, Morien, it · What happens: have, rest, find, place, shelter, seem · To what, where: Morien, roof
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 (night, Morien, it), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rest | nsubj |
| 5 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 rest | cc:preconj |
| 6 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 slumber | cc |
| 8 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rest | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 place | nsubj |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 shelter | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shelter | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 shelter | aux |
| 17 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ask | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 ask | cc |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 seemed | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seemed | nsubj |
| 22 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ask | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seemed | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ask | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 ask | aux |
| 27 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 found | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 food | case |
| 29 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ask | obl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 lodging | cc |
| 31 | lodging | lodge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 food | conj |
| 32 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 34 roof | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 roof | det |
| 34 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lodging | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | that night | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rest | infinitive | Morien | slumber conj | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | place | Morien | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | shelter | might | Morien | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | seem | past | it | Morien | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | might | Morien | for food | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | lodge | gerund | Morien not said here | a roof | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beneath roof=Destination |
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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