Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 47
The King of Ireland hath seized upon all this land, he who would save his life must perforce yield to him, for he hath with him a mighty army and our folk are defenceless.
Who acts: King, life, mighty army · What happens: seize, save, perforce, have, be · To what, where: King, yield
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 (King, life, mighty army), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 5 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | aux:pass |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 land | det:predet |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 save | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 save | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 save | aux |
| 15 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seized | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perforce | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 perforce | aux |
| 19 | perforce | perforce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 save | conj |
| 20 | yield | yield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perforce | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 perforce | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hath | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 hath | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hath | nsubj |
| 26 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 perforce | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hath | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 army | det |
| 30 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 army | amod |
| 31 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 defenceless | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 folk | cc |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 folk | nmod:poss |
| 34 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 army | conj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 defenceless | cop |
| 36 | defenceless | defenceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hath | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | present · passive | the King of Ireland | upon all land | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | would | King | who nsubj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | perforce | must | King's life | yield | King | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | present | King | with life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | a mighty army and our folk | defenceless property | tree rules |
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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