Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 40
But the folk that were within had no more than a day's grace left to them, on the morrow must they fare forth, for would they defend it no quarter should be shown them, but they should be seethed or roasted alive.
Who acts: folk, knights · What happens: be, leave, fare, defend, show, seethe · To what, where: grace, knights, morrow, folk, quarter
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 (folk, knights), 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 | _ | 24 fare | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 folk | det |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fare | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | obj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | cop |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 had | case |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 folk | acl:relcl |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 grace | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 day | case |
| 14 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 more | obl |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 grace | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 morrow | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 morrow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morrow | det |
| 21 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 fare | aux |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fare | nsubj |
| 24 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 fare | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 defend | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 defend | mark |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 defend | aux |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 defend | nsubj |
| 30 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fare | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 defend | obj |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 quarter | det |
| 33 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 shown | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 shown | aux:pass |
| 36 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 defend | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 shown | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 seethed | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 seethed | cc |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 seethed | nsubj |
| 41 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 seethed | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 seethed | aux:pass |
| 43 | seethed | seethe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 fare | conj |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 roasted | cc |
| 45 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 seethed | conj |
| 46 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 roasted | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 fare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the folk obj; have property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a day's grace not said here | knights = knight | the morrow | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | fare | must | the folk | knights = knight nsubj; forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | defend | would | knights = knight | folk | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | show | should · passive | no quarter | knights = knight obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Topic | ||||
| 6 | seethe | should · passive | knights = knight | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | roast | participle | alive property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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