Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 89
But now will I leave speaking of them and tell how it fared with Sir Lancelot, who would slay the evil beast.
Who acts: I, folk, Sir · What happens: leave, speak, tell, fare, slay · To what, where: evil beast · Speech: someone speaks here
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, folk, Sir), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 leave | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 leave | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 leave | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 speaking | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 leave | conj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 fared | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fared | nsubj |
| 13 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Sir | case |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fared | obl |
| 16 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sir | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slay | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 slay | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 slay | aux |
| 20 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Sir | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beast | det |
| 22 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beast | amod |
| 23 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slay | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | future | I | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | I not said here | of uncle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fare | past | folk | with Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | slay | would | Sir | the evil beast | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=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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