Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 35
Thus had the king sworn by his crown, and by all that may bind a king, that he would do them bitter shame.
Who acts: man, King · What happens: have, swear, bind, do, crown · To what, where: king, matters
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 (man, King), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 king | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 crown | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 crown | nmod:poss |
| 8 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sworn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bind | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bind | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 that | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 bind | obl |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bind | aux |
| 15 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bind | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bind | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 shame | amod |
| 25 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swear | participle | the king not said here | by King's crown | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bind | may | a king | by that | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | would | man | matters = matter | bitter shame obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | crown | King | nom crown «communication 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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