Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 18
Little did they reck of all they brought with them; he might win it who had a mind thereto.
Who acts: slain, guest · What happens: reck, bring, win, have · To what, where: Little, best, mind
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 (slain, guest), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reck | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reck | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reck | nsubj |
| 4 | reck | reck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 reck | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 all | acl:relcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 win | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 win | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 win | aux |
| 14 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reck | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 win | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 win | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mind | det |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 17 had | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reck | past · do-support | slain | Little | of all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | past | slain | with knights = knight | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | win | might | guest | best = good | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | have | past | a mind | who nsubj; thereto property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=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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