Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 33
None will take me over the water since I am a Moor, and of other countenance than the dwellers in this land; this my journey is for naught.
Who acts: None, I, journey, my · What happens: take, be, journey · To what, where: me, water, Moor
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 (None, I, journey, my), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 Moor | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Moor | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Moor | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Moor | det |
| 12 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 countenance | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 countenance | cc |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 countenance | case |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 countenance | amod |
| 17 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Moor | appos |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 dwellers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dwellers | det |
| 20 | dwellers | dweller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 countenance | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 land | det |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dwellers | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 naught | punct |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 journey | det |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 journey | nmod:poss |
| 27 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 naught | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 naught | cop |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 naught | case |
| 30 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 take | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | None | me | the water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a Moor | other countenance than the dwellers in this land appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | my journey | for naught | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | journey | my | nom journey «act 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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