Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 63
Twere a sin and a disgrace to yield up the castle, we should better adventure our lives and see the matter to an end."
Who acts: we · What happens: twere, yield up, adventure, see · To what, where: sin, castle, lives, matter
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 (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 | Twere | twere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sin | det |
| 3 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twere | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 disgrace | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 disgrace | det |
| 6 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sin | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 yield | mark |
| 8 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Twere | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 yield | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yield | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 adventure | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 adventure | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 adventure | aux |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 adventure | amod |
| 16 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twere | parataxis |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lives | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 adventure | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Twere | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 matter | det |
| 22 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twere | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twere | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twere | past | a sin and a disgrace | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | yield up | to-infinitive | the castle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | adventure | should | we | our lives | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | the matter | to a end | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer matter=Stimulus |
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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