Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 14
The king must yield himself a prisoner, thereto did need compel him, otherwise had he been slain and all his folk with him.
Who acts: king · What happens: yield, need, compel, have, be · To what, where: king, slain
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yield | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 yield | aux |
| 4 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 yield | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 prisoner | det |
| 7 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yield | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 need | punct |
| 9 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 11 need | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 need | aux |
| 11 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 yield | parataxis |
| 12 | compel | compel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 need | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 compel | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yield | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slain | nsubj |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 slain | cop |
| 19 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 folk | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 folk | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 folk | nmod:poss |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slain | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 folk | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 yield | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | must | the king | king | a prisoner obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent himself=Goal prisoner=Theme | |||
| 2 | need | past · do-support | thereto property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | compel not said to happen | infinitive | king | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 4 | have | past | otherwise property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | participle | king | slain and king's folk with man | king's folk with man conj | 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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