Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 80
That evil beast whereof I spake when ye were here afore hath so laid waste the land that no man dwelleth herein.
Who acts: I, ye, evil beast, man · What happens: speak, be, have, dwell · To what, where: land · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, ye, evil beast, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 beast | det |
| 2 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beast | amod |
| 3 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hath | nsubj |
| 4 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 spake | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 spake | nsubj |
| 6 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beast | acl:relcl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 here | advmod |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 here | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | cop |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 spake | advmod |
| 11 | afore | afore | ADV | _ | 10 here | advmod |
| 12 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 laid | advmod |
| 14 | laid | laid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hath | xcomp |
| 15 | waste | waste | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 dwelleth | obj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dwelleth | nsubj |
| 21 | dwelleth | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 land | acl:relcl |
| 22 | herein | herein | ADV | _ | 21 dwelleth | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | I | whereof property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | ye | afore, here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | that evil beast | laid property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | dwell | present | no man | the land | herein property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme that=Location |
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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