Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 54
"They counted themselves for lost, deeming that I were the devil, and were sore afeard, and put out to sea.
Who acts: adventures, Sir · What happens: count, lose, deem, be, put out · To what, where: adventures, devil · 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, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 counted | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 counted | nsubj |
| 3 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 counted | obj |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 lost | mark |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 counted | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 deeming | punct |
| 8 | deeming | deem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 lost | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 devil | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 devil | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 devil | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 devil | det |
| 13 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deeming | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 afeard | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 afeard | cc |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 afeard | cop |
| 17 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 afeard | amod |
| 18 | afeard | afeard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 counted | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 afeard | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 put | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count in a quote | past | adventures = adventure | adventures = adventure | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | participle | adventures = adventure not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | deem in a quote | gerund | adventures = adventure not said here | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | Sir | the devil | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | afeard property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | put out in a quote | participle | to sea | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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