Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 53

As they came to the ships, Morien told him how it had fared with him before when he thought to make the crossing, and he said that he found no living soul among all that he saw there who would let him into his ship, since he seemed to them so huge, and black withal.

Who acts: adventures, Morien, Sir · What happens: come, tell, fare, think, make, say · To what, where: ships, Sir, company, crossing, living soul, ship · 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, Morien, Sir), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 ships	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ships	det
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
8	Morien	Morien	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 fared	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fared	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fared	aux
14	fared	fare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	ccomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fared	obl
17	before	before	ADV	_	14 fared	advmod
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 thought	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fared	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thought	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 crossing	det
24	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 found	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	ccomp
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 soul	det
33	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 soul	compound
34	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obj
35	among	among	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 saw	det:predet
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 saw	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 saw	nsubj
39	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 found	conj
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 saw	advmod
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 let	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 let	aux
43	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 saw	ccomp
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 let	obj
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 ship	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 ship	nmod:poss
47	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 let	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 seemed	punct
49	since	since	SCONJ	_	51 seemed	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 seemed	nsubj
51	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 saw	conj
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 them	case
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 seemed	obl
54	so	so	ADV	_	55 huge	advmod
55	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 seemed	xcomp
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 withal	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 withal	cc
58	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 withal	amod
59	withal	withal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 told	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	adventures = adventure			the ships		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ship=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	Morien		Sir			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fare	past · perfect · passive		company			with Sir; before property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Sir					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	Sir not said here	the crossing				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crossing=Product
6	say speech: assert	past	Sir					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	find	past	Sir	no living soul				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Topic
8	see	past	Sir			there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	let	would		Sir		Sir's ship	who nsubj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	seem	past	Sir		adventures = adventure		huge property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 53