Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 95
But as ye come thither, to one side, at the entering in of the forest, they who would seek it may find the hermitage within but a short distance, even as it were the mountance of a mile.
Who acts: ye, man, forest · What happens: come, seek, find, be · To what, where: entering, hermitage
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 (ye, man, forest), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 seek | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 come | mark |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 seek | advcl |
| 5 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 side | punct |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 side | nummod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 entering | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 entering | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 entering | det |
| 13 | entering | entering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 forest | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 in | fixed |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entering | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seek | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 seek | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 seek | aux |
| 22 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seek | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hermitage | det |
| 27 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 28 | within | within | ADP | _ | 32 distance | case |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 distance | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 distance | det |
| 31 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 distance | amod |
| 32 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 mountance | punct |
| 34 | even | even | ADV | _ | 39 mountance | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 mountance | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 mountance | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 mountance | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mountance | det |
| 39 | mountance | mountance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seek | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 mile | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 mile | det |
| 42 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mountance | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | ye | the entering in the forest | to one side; thither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | seek | would | man | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | may | forest | the hermitage | within a short distance | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermitage=Topic | |||
| 4 | is | past | forest | as the mountance; of a mile | 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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