Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 21
That which the lady claimeth from me, in that I have thus betrayed her and foresworn mine oath, that will I make good, by the help of God.
Who acts: That, I · What happens: claim, betray, foreswear, make, help · To what, where: lady, mine, God
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, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 claimeth | nsubj |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 claimeth | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 claimeth | nsubj |
| 5 | claimeth | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 claimeth | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 betrayed | punct |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 betrayed | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 betrayed | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 betrayed | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 betrayed | aux |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 betrayed | advmod |
| 14 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 claimeth | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 betrayed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 foresworn | cc |
| 17 | foresworn | foreswear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 betrayed | conj |
| 18 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 foresworn | obj |
| 19 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foresworn | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 make | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 claimeth | conj |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 make | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 help | punct |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 help | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 help | det |
| 29 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | parataxis |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 God | case |
| 31 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 help | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 claimeth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | present | That | from me; which obj; the lady nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 2 | betray | present · perfect | I | lady | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | foreswear | participle | I not said here | mine | oath obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | future | that | I nsubj; the help of God parataxis; good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | help | God | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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