Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 27
Each man turned his boat seaward, and put off from the shore, for Morien was to look upon even as if he were come out of hell.
Who acts: man, Morien · What happens: turn, put off, be, come out · To what, where: boat seaward, shore, Morien, hell
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, Morien), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 seaward | nmod:poss |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seaward | compound |
| 6 | seaward | seaward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shore | det |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 look | mark |
| 16 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 look | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 look | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 look | mark |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | conj |
| 20 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux:pass |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 look | advcl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 hell | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 hell | case |
| 29 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | each man | man's boat seaward | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seaward=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put off | infinitive | each man not said here | the shore | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Morien | look property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come out | past · passive | Morien | hell | tree rules |
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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