Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 21
Twas all heath and sand, and no land beside; there grew neither barley nor wheat.
Who acts: land · What happens: grow · To what, where: barley, Twas
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 (land), 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 heath | det |
| 3 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twas | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sand | cc |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heath | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 land | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 land | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heath | appos |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 grew | mark |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 grew | expl |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 land | acl:relcl |
| 14 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 barley | det |
| 15 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | obj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 wheat | cc |
| 17 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 barley | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | no land not said here | neither barley nor wheat | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location barley=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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