Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 55
The space began to widen round Sir Gawain and Morien; for all there deemed that he came forth from hell, and was hight Devil, in that he so quelled them and felled them underfoot that many hereafter spake thereof.
Who acts: space, Sir · What happens: begin, widen, deem, come, be, quell · To what, where: hell, hight Devil, blows
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 (space, Sir), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 space | det |
| 2 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 widen | mark |
| 5 | widen | widen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 Gawain | case |
| 7 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 widen | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Morien | cc |
| 10 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Gawain | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 deemed | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 deemed | case |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 there | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 deemed | advmod |
| 15 | deemed | deem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 began | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 deemed | advcl |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 hell | case |
| 21 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Devil | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Devil | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Devil | cop |
| 25 | hight | hight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Devil | amod |
| 26 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 quelled | punct |
| 28 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 32 quelled | mark |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 in | fixed |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 quelled | nsubj |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 quelled | advmod |
| 32 | quelled | quell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 quelled | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 felled | cc |
| 35 | felled | fell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 quelled | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 felled | obj |
| 37 | underfoot | underfoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 felled | obj |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 spake | nsubj |
| 39 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 spake | nsubj |
| 40 | hereafter | hereafter | ADV | _ | 41 spake | advmod |
| 41 | spake | speak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 underfoot | appos |
| 42 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 41 spake | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the space | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | widen | to-infinitive | the space not said here | round Gawain Sir and Morien | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | deem | participle | there | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | Sir | hell | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hell=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | is a | past | hight Devil | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | quell | past | Sir | blows = blow | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 7 | fell | past | Sir not said here | blows = blow | underfoot obj | tree rules |
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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