Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 13
I know not, and have no true tidings, whether that lady of whom ye speak be living or dead; naught do I know thereof!"
Who acts: I, ye, lady · What happens: not know, have, speak, be, live, know · To what, where: true tidings · Speech: someone speaks here
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, ye, lady), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 know | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 tidings | det |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tidings | amod |
| 9 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lady | punct |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 lady | mark |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 know | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 whom | case |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lady | nmod |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 speak | nsubj |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 whom | acl:relcl |
| 18 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 speak | ccomp |
| 19 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 be | xcomp |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 dead | cc |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 living | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 naught | punct |
| 23 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 26 know | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | aux |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | parataxis |
| 27 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 26 know | advmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I not said here | no true tidings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Patient | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | know | present · do-support | that lady | naught nsubj; I nsubj; thereof property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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