Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 82
Sir Lancelot spake thus: "Flee we may not, nor dare we hope for aid, nor may we surrender the castle; in this way shall we profit better."
Who acts: we · What happens: flee, hope, surrender, profit · To what, where: dare, castle, way, Sir Lancelot spake
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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spake | compound |
| 2 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spake | compound |
| 3 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 spake | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Flee | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Flee | punct |
| 7 | Flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 spake | parataxis |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 may | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 Flee | ccomp |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 may | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dare | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 dare | cc |
| 13 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Flee | obl |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hope | nsubj |
| 15 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dare | acl:relcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 aid | case |
| 17 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hope | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 surrender | punct |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 surrender | cc |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 surrender | aux |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 surrender | nsubj |
| 22 | surrender | surrender | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hope | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 surrender | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 profit | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 way | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 profit | obl |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 profit | aux |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 profit | nsubj |
| 31 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Flee | parataxis |
| 32 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 profit | amod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee in a quote | infinitive | dare | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hope in a quote | present | we | dare not said here | for aid | tree rules | |||
| 3 | surrender in a quote | may | we | the castle | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | profit in a quote | shall | we | this way | 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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