Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 12
Now have I failed to keep mine oath, and needs must that I bethink me well, and seek counsel in the matter.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, fail, not keep, need, bethink, seek · To what, where: mine, me, counsel, matter
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 (I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 have | advmod |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 failed | xcomp |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 needs | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 needs | cc |
| 11 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 needs | aux |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 bethink | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bethink | nsubj |
| 15 | bethink | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 needs | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bethink | obj |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 bethink | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seek | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seek | cc |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 needs | conj |
| 21 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 matter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | now | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fail | past | I | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not keep | to-infinitive | I not said here | mine | oath obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent my=Theme oath=Attribute | |||
| 4 | need | must | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 5 | bethink | present | I | me | well property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | seek | infinitive | counsel | the matter | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme in matter=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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