--- title: He said that he beheld a vision in a dream; it seemed to him that he… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: He said that he beheld a vision in a dream; it seemed to him that he rode throughout the day in a land where he saw naught but wilderness and wood, and trees, many and fair. Who acts: hermit, it. 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Weston, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, it), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:10:40 # text = He said that he beheld a vision in a dream; it seemed to him that he rode throughout the day in a land where he saw naught but wilderness and wood, and trees, many and fair. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 19 throughout throughout ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 naught naught PRON NN PronType=Neg 27 obj _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | hermit | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **behold** | past | hermit | a vision | | a dream | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus | | 3 | **seem** | past | it | trees | hermit | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ride** | past | hermit | | | a land | day | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **see** | past | hermit | naught wilderness wood | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer naught=Stimulus | 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. 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