Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 20
Then did he forthwith go to bemoan his comrade, and quoth, "Sir Knight, may ye not be healed?
Who acts: Sir · What happens: go, bemoan, not heal · To what, where: comrade, ye
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | forthwith | forthwith | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 he | amod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bemoan | mark |
| 7 | bemoan | bemoan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 9 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bemoan | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 quoth | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 quoth | cc |
| 12 | quoth | quoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comrade | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sir | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sir | punct |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 comrade | appos |
| 16 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sir | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 healed | punct |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 healed | aux |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 healed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 healed | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 healed | aux:pass |
| 22 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 go | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | Sir | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bemoan | to-infinitive | Sir not said here | Sir's comrade and quoth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not heal in a quote | may · passive | ye | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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