Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 30
Little as they liked it they must needs bring King Arthur thither, and thereby make terms for the king, their lord.
Who acts: points · What happens: like, bring, make · To what, where: tale, King Arthur, terms
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 (points), 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 | 2 as | fixed |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 liked | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 liked | nsubj |
| 4 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bring | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 liked | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bring | aux |
| 8 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Arthur | compound |
| 11 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 12 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 9 bring | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 15 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 16 make | advmod |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bring | conj |
| 17 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lord | punct |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lord | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 king | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | points = point | tale | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | must | points = point | King Arthur | needs nsubj; thither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument arthur=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | infinitive | points = point not said here | terms | for the king and points's lord; thereby property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent term=Product for king=Beneficiary |
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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