Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 83
I will aid the queen, and God grant that I may win such fame as shall be for the bettering of her cause and mine own honour and profit.
Who acts: I, God, sware · What happens: aid, grant, win, be, cause · To what, where: queen, such fame
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 (I, God, sware), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 aid | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 aid | aux |
| 3 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aid | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grant | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grant | cc |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grant | nsubj |
| 9 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 aid | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 win | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 win | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 win | aux |
| 13 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 grant | advcl |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fame | amod |
| 15 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 win | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 bettering | mark |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 bettering | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bettering | cop |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 bettering | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bettering | det |
| 21 | bettering | bettering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 win | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cause | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 cause | nmod:poss |
| 24 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bettering | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mine | cc |
| 26 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cause | conj |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 honour | amod |
| 28 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cause | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 profit | cc |
| 30 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 honour | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 aid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | future | I | the queen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | grant | present | God | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | win | may | I | such fame | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fame=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | I not said here | for the bettering; of sware's cause and mine and own honour and profit | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cause | sware | nom cause «event 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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