Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 10
No man might I see or hear, no wheat or barley grew there; 'tis the truth I tell ye, thither cometh no man save that he desire to cross the wide water in the ships that there lie ready.
Who acts: man, wheat, I, heart, ships · What happens: see, hear, grow, tell, come, save · To what, where: truth, ye, wide water · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wheat, I, heart), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 hear | cc |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 wheat | det |
| 10 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 barley | cc |
| 12 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wheat | conj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | conj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 grew | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 tis | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 tis | punct |
| 17 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 truth | det |
| 19 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tis | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | nsubj |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 truth | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 tell | iobj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cometh | punct |
| 24 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 25 cometh | advmod |
| 25 | cometh | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 tell | conj |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 save | nsubj |
| 28 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 cometh | ccomp |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 desire | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 desire | nsubj |
| 31 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 save | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 cross | mark |
| 33 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 save | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 water | det |
| 35 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 water | amod |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cross | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 ships | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ships | det |
| 39 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 cross | obl |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 lie | nsubj |
| 41 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 42 lie | expl |
| 42 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 ships | acl:relcl |
| 43 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 lie | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | might | no man | I nsubj; tis the truth conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear | infinitive | no man not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | no wheat or barley | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | I | the truth not said here | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | |||
| 5 | come | present | I not said here | thither property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | save | infinitive | no man | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | desire | heart | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | cross | to-infinitive | no man not said here | the wide water | in the ships | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Patient in ship=Topic | |||
| 9 | lie | present | the ships | there | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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