Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 65
And that the steps brake beneath ye, 'twas for your sins; ye had well-nigh climbed them had not sin laid hold on ye.
Who acts: steps, ye · What happens: break, have, climb, not sin, lay, hold on · To what, where: twas, ye, sins
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 (steps, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 brake | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 steps | det |
| 4 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brake | nsubj |
| 5 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | advcl |
| 6 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 7 ye | case |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 brake | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 twas | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 twas | punct |
| 10 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brake | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sins | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sins | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 twas | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 brake | punct |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 climbed | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 well | punct |
| 19 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 20 climbed | advmod |
| 20 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 climbed | obj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 climbed | conj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 sin | advmod |
| 24 | sin | sin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | xcomp |
| 25 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 hold | nsubj |
| 26 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sin | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 hold | compound:prt |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 hold | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | the steps | twas for your sins | ye | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath ye=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | ye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | climb | past | ye not said here | sins = sin | nigh, well property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | past | ye not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not sin | infinitive | ye not said here | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | lay | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | hold on | infinitive | ye | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme |
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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