Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 66
She knows not whither the folk who took him in the forest have led him, or what may since have befallen him.
Who acts: worst, folk · What happens: not know, take, lead, befall · To what, where: Arthur, forest, folk · 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 (worst, folk), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 knows | advmod |
| 4 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 led | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 folk | det |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 folk | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 led | aux |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 led | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 befallen | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 befallen | cc |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 befallen | obj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 befallen | aux |
| 20 | since | since | ADV | _ | 22 befallen | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 befallen | aux |
| 22 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 knows | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 befallen | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | worst = bad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the folk | Arthur | the forest | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in forest=Location | |||
| 3 | lead | present · perfect · passive | the folk | Arthur obj; whither property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | befall | may · perfect | worst = bad not said here | Arthur | what obj; since property | 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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