Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 76
Then swore the king an oath that an they yielded them not up straight-way they should in no wise escape the uttermost that he might do unto them.
Who acts: knights, King · What happens: swear, not yield up, escape, do · To what, where: king, oath, uttermost
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 (knights, King), 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 swore | advmod |
| 2 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swore | obj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 oath | det |
| 6 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swore | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 yielded | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 that | appos |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 yielded | nsubj |
| 10 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 oath | acl:relcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 yielded | obj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 yielded | advmod |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 yielded | advmod |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 way | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 straight | punct |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yielded | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 should | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wise | case |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 wise | det |
| 21 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 should | conj |
| 22 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 wise | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 uttermost | det |
| 24 | uttermost | uttermost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 escape | obj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 escape | advcl |
| 29 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 do | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | the king | then | a oath obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme oath=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not yield up | past | knights = knight | a oath | way obl; sin obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | escape | infinitive | the uttermost | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme uttermost=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | do | might | King | unto knights = knight | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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