Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 76
And beyond the border did men tell me that would I ride hither I must fare for long upon the road ere I found a soul, man or woman, who lived, and was of the faith of Christendom.
Who acts: I, woman · What happens: tell, ride, fare, find, live, be · To what, where: me, soul · 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 (I, woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 2 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 5 did | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 border | det |
| 4 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 did | obj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 ride | mark |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ride | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ride | nsubj |
| 12 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | advcl |
| 13 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 12 ride | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fare | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fare | aux |
| 16 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ride | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 long | case |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 fare | advmod |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 long | obl |
| 22 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 24 found | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 long | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 soul | det |
| 26 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 soul | conj |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 woman | cc |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 man | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lived | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 lived | nsubj |
| 33 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 woman | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 faith | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 faith | cc |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 faith | cop |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 faith | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 faith | det |
| 39 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Christendom | case |
| 41 | Christendom | Christendom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 faith | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | ride | would | I | hither property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fare | must | I | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | past | I | a soul and man or woman | ere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Topic | |||
| 5 | live | past | woman | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | of the faith; of Christendom | 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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