Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 17
Ye begat me upon her who should be your wife, had ye kept your oath.
Who acts: Ye · What happens: begat, be, keep · To what, where: me, ye
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 (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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 begat | nsubj |
| 2 | begat | begat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 begat | obj |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wife | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wife | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wife | cop |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 begat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kept | punct |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kept | aux |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 begat | parataxis |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 oath | nmod:poss |
| 16 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begat | past | Ye | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | should | upon lady's wife; lady nmod:poss; who nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keep | past · perfect · passive | ye | your oath obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme oath=Attribute |
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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