Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 5
He asked him if he yet thought thereupon, how, when he departed from the land he pledged his word to her that he would return, so soon as might be, to the country of the Moors, for her profit and for her honour?
Who acts: Sir, Morien · What happens: ask, think, depart, pledge, return, word · To what, where: Lancelot, land, word, Morien
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 (Sir, Morien), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 thought | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 thought | advmod |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | advcl |
| 8 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 7 thought | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 how | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 thought | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 departed | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 departed | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 departed | nsubj |
| 14 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 departed | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pledged | nsubj |
| 19 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 word | nmod:poss |
| 21 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pledged | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pledged | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 return | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 return | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 return | aux |
| 27 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 pledged | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 soon | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 soon | advmod |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 asked | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 be | mark |
| 32 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 be | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 soon | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 country | punct |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 country | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 country | det |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Moors | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Moors | det |
| 40 | Moors | Moor | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 country | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 profit | punct |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 profit | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 profit | nmod:poss |
| 44 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 honour | cc |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 honour | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 honour | nmod:poss |
| 48 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 profit | conj |
| 49 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Sir | Lancelot | to the country of the Moors; for Morien's profit and Morien's honour; soon property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past | Sir | yet | thereupon property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | depart | past | Sir | the land | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | pledge | past | Sir | Sir's word | Morien | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent word=Theme to she=Goal | |||
| 5 | return | would | Sir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | word | Sir | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | profit | Morien | nom profit «possession intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | honour | Morien | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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