Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 104
The one is a goodly man to look upon and well armed, and so, forsooth, is the other, but his armour and his limbs, so far as I might see, were blacker than soot or pitch.
Who acts: one, goodly man, I, armour · What happens: be, look, see · To what, where: goodly man
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, goodly man, I, armour), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 other | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 man | acl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 look | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 armed | cc |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 armed | advmod |
| 12 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 look | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forsooth | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forsooth | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 forsooth | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forsooth | punct |
| 17 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 other | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 blacker | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 blacker | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 armour | nmod:poss |
| 25 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 blacker | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 limbs | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 28 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 armour | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 far | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 far | advmod |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 blacker | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 see | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 see | nsubj |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 see | aux |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 far | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 far | punct |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 blacker | cop |
| 38 | blacker | black | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 other | conj |
| 39 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 soot | case |
| 40 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 blacker | obl |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 pitch | cc |
| 42 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 soot | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 other | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the one | a goodly man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | a goodly man not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | the one not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | a goodly man | other property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | might | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | man's armour and man's limbs | than soot or pitch; black, far 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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