Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 93
He said that he knew the hermit; "And 'twixt water and land 'tis a good fifteen mile thither, that do I know for a truth, for oft-times have I heard men speak thereof since I came hither.
Who acts: Sir, that, oft times, heard men · What happens: say, know, have, hear, speak, come · To what, where: hermit · 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 (Sir, that, oft times, heard men), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 knew | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hermit | det |
| 7 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 water | cc |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 12 | twixt | twixt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 water | compound |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 land | cc |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 water | conj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 tis | punct |
| 17 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 water | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mile | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mile | amod |
| 20 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 mile | nummod |
| 21 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tis | nmod |
| 22 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 21 mile | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 know | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 know | aux |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 know | nsubj |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 mile | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 truth | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 truth | det |
| 30 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 know | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 times | case |
| 33 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 times | amod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 oft | punct |
| 35 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 have | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 know | ccomp |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 have | nsubj |
| 38 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 men | amod |
| 39 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 speak | nsubj |
| 40 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | parataxis |
| 41 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 40 speak | advmod |
| 42 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 44 came | mark |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 came | nsubj |
| 44 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 speak | advcl |
| 45 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 44 came | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sir | twixt water and land and tis a good fifteen mile ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Sir | the hermit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hermit=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present · do-support | that | for a truth; I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | oft times | I nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hear in a quote | participle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | heard men | thereof property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | past | Sir | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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