Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 28
They deemed they had seen the Foul Fiend himself, who would fain deçeive them, so they departed as swiftly as they might and would in no wise abide his coming.
Who acts: knights, Foul Fiend, Morien · What happens: deem, see, fain, deçeive, depart, abide · To what, where: Foul Fiend, knights
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 (knights, Foul Fiend, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 deemed | nsubj |
| 2 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 deemed | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fiend | det |
| 7 | Foul | Foul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fiend | compound |
| 8 | Fiend | Fiend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 Fiend | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fain | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 fain | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fain | aux |
| 13 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Fiend | conj |
| 14 | deçeive | deçeive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fain | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 deçeive | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 departed | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 departed | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 departed | nsubj |
| 19 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 deemed | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 swiftly | advmod |
| 21 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 30 abide | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 would | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 would | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 would | aux |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 would | cc |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 abide | aux |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wise | case |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 wise | det |
| 29 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 would | obl |
| 30 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 departed | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 coming | nsubj |
| 32 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 abide | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 deemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | past | knights = knight | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | knights = knight | the Foul Fiend Morien | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fiend=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fain | would | the Foul Fiend Morien | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | deçeive | infinitive | the Foul Fiend Morien not said here | knights = knight | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | depart | past | knights = knight | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | abide | would | knights = knight not said here | swiftly property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come | gerund | Morien | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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