Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 82
So soon as he had in his boat Morien, of whom he was sore afraid, in that he was so huge, and had shipped his steed, which was in seeming over-strong, he pushed the boat from shore and put out to sea.
Who acts: Tis, steed · What happens: have, be, ship, seem, push, put out · To what, where: boat, steed, shore
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 (Tis, steed), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 pushed | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 boat | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 boat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 9 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 boat | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 whom | case |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 afraid | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 afraid | cop |
| 15 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 afraid | amod |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 had | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 huge | punct |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 huge | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 huge | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 huge | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 huge | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 huge | advmod |
| 23 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 afraid | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shipped | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 shipped | cc |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 shipped | aux |
| 27 | shipped | ship | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 afraid | parataxis |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 steed | nmod:poss |
| 29 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shipped | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 seeming | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 seeming | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 seeming | aux |
| 33 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 34 seeming | mark |
| 34 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 steed | conj |
| 35 | over-strong | over-strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 seeming | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pushed | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 pushed | nsubj |
| 38 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 boat | det |
| 40 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pushed | obj |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 shore | case |
| 42 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pushed | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 put | cc |
| 44 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 shore | conj |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 put | compound:prt |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 sea | case |
| 47 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 put | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Tis | Tis's boat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Tis | whom obl; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Tis | huge property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ship | past · perfect | Tis's steed | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | |||||
| 5 | seem | past · progressive | Tis's steed | over-strong property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | push | past | Tis | the boat | shore | soon property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent boat=Theme from shore=Trajectory | ||
| 7 | put out | participle | Tis not said here | 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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