Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 62
Then said Sir Morien: "'Tis good that we abide here within, and brave the venture for the sake of the king our lord. '
Who acts: Morien, we · What happens: say, abide · 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 (Morien, we), 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Morien | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 8 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 good | compound |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 abide | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 abide | nsubj |
| 12 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 good | advcl |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 abide | advmod |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 abide | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brave | cc |
| 17 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 venture | det |
| 19 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brave | nsubj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 sake | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sake | det |
| 22 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brave | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 king | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sake | nmod |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lord | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brave | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Morien Sir | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | abide in a quote | present | we | here | 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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