Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 11
That so many years have fled since I sware to the maiden that I would return to her, that came of necessity.
Who acts: That, maiden · What happens: flee, return, come · To what, where: Morien
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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 (That, maiden), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fled | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 fled | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fled | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fled | aux |
| 6 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | since | since | ADP | _ | 9 sware | case |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sware | nsubj |
| 9 | sware | sware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fled | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 maiden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sware | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 return | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 return | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 return | aux |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 return | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fled | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 necessity | case |
| 23 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | present · perfect | That | since sware I to the maiden | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | would | the maiden | Morien | I nsubj | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result | |||
| 3 | come | past | that | of necessity | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of necessity=Initial_Location |
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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