Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 29

Then must Morien turn him again, for none would hearken to his speech nor tell him that which he fain would know; all were of one mind that 'twas the Devil, and none else, who rode there upon the sand, so they fled with one consent from the shore.

Who acts: Morien, none, all, that, knights · What happens: turn, hearken, tell, fain, know, be · To what, where: Fiend, Morien, twas, shore · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Morien, none, all, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turn	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	Morien	Morien	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hearken	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 hearken	mark
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 hearken	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hearken	aux
11	hearken	hearken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 speech	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 speech	nmod:poss
14	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hearken	obl
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	cc
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hearken	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fain	mark
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 fain	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fain	nsubj
21	fain	fain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	advcl
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 know	aux
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fain	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 mind	punct
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 mind	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mind	cop
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 mind	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 mind	nummod
29	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	parataxis
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 twas	nsubj
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 twas	punct
32	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mind	nmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Devil	det
34	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 twas	appos
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 none	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 none	cc
37	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	34 Devil	appos
38	else	else	ADV	_	37 none	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rode	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 rode	nsubj
41	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 none	acl:relcl
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 rode	advmod
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 sand	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sand	det
45	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rode	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fled	punct
47	so	so	ADV	_	49 fled	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fled	nsubj
49	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 twas	acl:relcl
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 consent	case
51	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 consent	nummod
52	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fled	obl
53	from	from	ADP	_	55 shore	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 shore	det
55	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fled	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	must	Morien	Fiend			then; again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	hearken	would	none					to Morien's speech	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	none not said here		Morien				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	fain	present	Morien					which obj	tree rules
5	know	would	Morien not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	all					of one mind	tree rules
7	twa		that					the Devil appos	tree rules
8	ride	past				there		upon the sand; who nsubj	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
9	flee	past	knights = knight	twas not said here		the shore		with one consent	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme twa=Initial_Location
10	speak		Morien						nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 29

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 29