Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 22
He saw and heard no man, nor did folk come and go there, but he saw ships at anchor, and shipmen therein, who were wont to take over those folk who would cross into Ireland.
Who acts: man, folk, shipmen · What happens: see, hear, come, go, be, take over · To what, where: man, ships, anchor, folk, Ireland
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 (man, folk, shipmen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 heard | cc |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 come | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 10 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | conj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 19 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 saw | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 anchor | case |
| 21 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shipmen | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shipmen | cc |
| 24 | shipmen | shipmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | conj |
| 25 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 24 shipmen | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wont | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 wont | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wont | cop |
| 29 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shipmen | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 take | mark |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 wont | csubj |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 take | compound:prt |
| 33 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 folk | det |
| 34 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obj |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 cross | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 cross | aux |
| 37 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 folk | acl:relcl |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 Ireland | case |
| 39 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 cross | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | shipmen conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | man not said here | no man | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past · do-support | folk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | folk not said here | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | folk | ships | anchor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is | past | shipmen | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take over | to-infinitive | that folk | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme | |||||
| 8 | cross | would | that folk | Ireland | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into ireland=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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