Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 15
She to whom ye gave your troth yet liveth and is my mother, and ye, Sir Knight, are my father!
Who acts: lady, ye · What happens: give, live, be · To what, where: troth, mother, father
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 (lady, ye), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 whom | case |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 gave | obl |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 troth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 9 liveth | cc |
| 9 | liveth | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mother | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mother | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 liveth | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 father | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 father | cc |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 father | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Knight | punct |
| 18 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ye | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ye | punct |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 father | cop |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | advcl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | lady | your troth | whom obl; ye nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent troth=Theme to whom=Recipient | |||
| 2 | live | present | lady not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | lady not said here | my mother | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | ye Knight Sir | my father | my nmod:poss | 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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