Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 36
He looked behind and afore, and saw nowhere where food was in preparing, nor saw he man nor woman, nor creature that had life, upon the seashore.
Who acts: head, food, creature · What happens: look, see, prepare, man, have · To what, where: creature, life
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 (head, food, creature), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 afore | cc |
| 5 | afore | afore | ADV | _ | 3 behind | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 saw | advmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 preparing | advmod |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 preparing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 preparing | aux |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 preparing | mark |
| 14 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 saw | cc |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 man | nsubj |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 woman | cc |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 man | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 creature | punct |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 creature | cc |
| 24 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 creature | acl:relcl |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seashore | punct |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 seashore | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 seashore | det |
| 31 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | head | behind property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | head not said here | nowhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | prepare | past · progressive | food | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | creature | the seashore conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | man | head | woman conj | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | past | creature | life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
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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