Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 60
There might ye see lying heads and hands, arms and legs; some hewn from the body, some smitten in twain.
Who acts: ye · What happens: see, lie, smite · To what, where: lying heads, some, twain
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 (ye), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 see | expl |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 heads | amod |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hands | cc |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heads | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arms | punct |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heads | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 legs | cc |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heads | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hewn | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 hewn | det |
| 15 | hewn | hewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 body | det |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hewn | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 smitten | punct |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 smitten | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hewn | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 twain | case |
| 23 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 smitten | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | might | ye | lying heads and hands and arms and legs | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | smite | participle · passive | some | twain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/7/60/