Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 85
Then the boatman deemed that he was a dead man, and prayed for mercy, beholding his face, for he though he might scarce be a Christian.
Who acts: boatman, Tis · What happens: deem, be, pray, behold · To what, where: dead man, face
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 (boatman, Tis), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 deemed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boatman | det |
| 3 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deemed | nsubj |
| 4 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 man | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 man | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 man | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deemed | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 prayed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 prayed | cc |
| 13 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deemed | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 mercy | case |
| 15 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prayed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beholding | punct |
| 17 | beholding | behold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 prayed | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beholding | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Christian | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Christian | case |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 Christian | nsubj |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 scarce | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 scarce | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 scarce | aux |
| 26 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Christian | amod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 Christian | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Christian | det |
| 29 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 prayed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | past | the boatman | then | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Tis | a dead man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pray | past | the boatman not said here | for mercy | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | behold | gerund | the boatman not said here | Tis's face | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | Tis | for a scarce Christian | 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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