Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 30
Morien saw well that his labour was in vain, for would he make the crossing there was no man would abide his coming or receive him into his boat.
Who acts: Morien, labour, man · What happens: see, be, make, abide, come, receive · To what, where: crossing, Morien, boat
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, labour, man), 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 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 vain | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 labour | nmod:poss |
| 6 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vain | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 vain | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vain | case |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crossing | det |
| 16 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 abide | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 abide | aux |
| 22 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 was | ccomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 coming | nsubj |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 abide | xcomp |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 receive | cc |
| 26 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 abide | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 receive | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 boat | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 boat | nmod:poss |
| 30 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 receive | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Morien | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Morien's labour | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | would | Morien | the crossing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crossing=Product | ||||
| 4 | be | past | Morien not said here | there | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | abide | would | no man | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | gerund | Morien | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | receive | infinitive | no man not said here | Morien | Morien's boat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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