Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 50
The goodman said: "I tell ye there are ten knights within (and they have naught but death before them), and a great company of foot soldiers.
Who acts: goodman, ten knights, knights · What happens: say, tell, be, have · To what, where: great company, ye, naught · 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 (goodman, ten knights, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goodman | det |
| 2 | goodman | goodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 are | expl |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 knights | nummod |
| 12 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 are | nsubj |
| 13 | within | within | ADP | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 have | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | advcl |
| 18 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 death | cc |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 naught | conj |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | obl |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 company | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 company | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 company | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 company | amod |
| 28 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 soldiers | case |
| 30 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 soldiers | compound |
| 31 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 company | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the goodman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the goodman = goodman | a great company of foot soldiers | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | ten knights | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | knights = knight | naught death | before leaders = leader | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=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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