Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 9

Then I began to wax fearful, for hunger beset me, and therein I found neither man nor woman, nor aught but heather and waste land wherein I was a stranger.

Who acts: I · What happens: begin, beset, find, be · To what, where: me, man, stranger

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 fearful	mark
5	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fearful	compound
6	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beset	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 hunger	case
9	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beset	obl
10	beset	beset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 beset	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
14	therein	therein	ADV	_	16 found	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
17	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 man	cc:preconj
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 woman	cc
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 aught	punct
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 aught	cc
23	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	3 began	parataxis
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 heather	cc
25	heather	heather	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 aught	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 land	cc
27	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 land	compound
28	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 aught	conj
29	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	33 stranger	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 stranger	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stranger	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stranger	det
33	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 land	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	I		then	aught heather waste land parataxis; fearful property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	beset	present		me		for hunger	tree rules
3	find	past	I	man nor woman		therein property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
4	is a	past	I	a stranger		wherein 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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 9