Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 12

When the false traitor saw this he deemed that he was dead, and left him lying, and went there, where the monster lay, and smote off the right foot, thinking to take it to the maiden of whom I have told ye, that he might therewith win her to wife.

Who acts: false traitor, traitor, monster, I · What happens: see, deem, be, leave, lie, go · To what, where: this, traitor, wound, maiden, ye, Devil · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false traitor, traitor, monster, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 traitor	det
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 traitor	amod
4	traitor	traitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deemed	advcl
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 saw	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 deemed	nsubj
8	deemed	deem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 dead	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dead	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deemed	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 left	cc
15	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deemed	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	obj
17	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 left	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deemed	parataxis
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 went	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 lay	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 monster	det
25	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 went	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 smote	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 smote	cc
29	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deemed	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	33 foot	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 foot	det
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 foot	amod
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 smote	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thinking	punct
35	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 smote	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 thinking	xcomp
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 take	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 maiden	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 maiden	det
41	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 whom	case
43	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 maiden	nmod
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 told	nsubj
45	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 told	aux
46	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 whom	acl:relcl
47	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	46 told	iobj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 win	punct
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 win	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 win	nsubj
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 win	aux
52	therewith	therewith	ADV	_	53 win	advmod
53	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 take	conj
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 win	obj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 wife	mark
56	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 win	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 deemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the false traitor	this				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	deem	past	traitor					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	traitor				dead property	tree rules
4	leave	past	traitor not said here	traitor				tree rules
5	lie	gerund	traitor not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	past				there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lie	past	the monster					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	smite	past	traitor not said here				off the right foot	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	think speech: other	gerund	traitor not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	take	to-infinitive	traitor not said here	wound		the maiden		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to maiden=Destination
11	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	I		ye			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient
12	win	might	monster	Devil			wife advcl; therewith property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 12

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 12