Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 66
Here may we well win fame for ourselves and uphold the honour of our lord King Arthur.
Who acts: we · What happens: win, uphold, honour · To what, where: fame, honour, lord
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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 win | advmod |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 win | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 win | nsubj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 win | advmod |
| 5 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 win | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ourselves | case |
| 8 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 win | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 uphold | cc |
| 10 | uphold | uphold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 win | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 honour | det |
| 12 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uphold | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lord | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lord | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 honour | nmod |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Arthur | compound |
| 17 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lord | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 win | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | may | we | fame | here | for ourselves; well property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fame=Theme for ourselves=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | uphold | infinitive | we not said here | the honour of our lord | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | honour | our lord | nom honour «state transitive»: of=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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