Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 34
When he heard and beheld with his eyes that King Arthur was in very deed free, then did he betake himself to him straight-way, and offered him goods and gold that he might be set at liberty, and he sware that he would be the king's man, and hold all his lands henceforward from him, and would depart from the kingdom with all his folk.
Who acts: king, Arthur · What happens: hear, behold, betake, offer, set, sware · To what, where: king, goods, liberty, man, lands, kingdom
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, Arthur), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beheld | cc |
| 5 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beheld | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 in | mark |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Arthur | compound |
| 11 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 in | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 in | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 deed | advmod |
| 15 | deed | deed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 free | amod |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 in | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 betake | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 betake | advmod |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 betake | aux |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 betake | nsubj |
| 21 | betake | betake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 free | parataxis |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 betake | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 betake | obl |
| 25 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 27 way | advmod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 straight | punct |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 betake | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 offered | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 offered | cc |
| 30 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 betake | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 offered | iobj |
| 32 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 30 offered | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gold | cc |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 goods | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 set | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 set | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 set | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 set | aux:pass |
| 39 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 offered | advcl |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 liberty | case |
| 41 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 set | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sware | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sware | cc |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 sware | nsubj |
| 45 | sware | sware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 set | conj |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 53 man | mark |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 man | nsubj |
| 48 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 man | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 man | cop |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 king | det |
| 51 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 man | nmod:poss |
| 52 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 51 king | case |
| 53 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sware | advcl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 hold | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 hold | cc |
| 56 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 betake | conj |
| 57 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 59 lands | det:predet |
| 58 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 lands | nmod:poss |
| 59 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 hold | obj |
| 60 | henceforward | henceforward | ADV | _ | 56 hold | advmod |
| 61 | from | from | ADP | _ | 62 him | case |
| 62 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 hold | obl |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 depart | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 66 depart | cc |
| 65 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 66 depart | aux |
| 66 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 hold | conj |
| 67 | from | from | ADP | _ | 69 kingdom | case |
| 68 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 kingdom | det |
| 69 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 depart | obl |
| 70 | with | with | ADP | _ | 73 folk | case |
| 71 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 73 folk | det:predet |
| 72 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 73 folk | nmod:poss |
| 73 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 depart | obl |
| 74 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | behold | participle | king not said here | with king's eyes | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | betake | past · do-support | Arthur | king | king | then | way obl | tree rules | |
| 4 | offer | past | goods and gold | king | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal goods=Theme | ||||
| 5 | set | might · passive | king | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at liberty=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sware | king | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | is a | would | king | the king's man | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | hold | infinitive | Arthur not said here | king's lands | from king; henceforward property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | |||
| 9 | depart | would | Arthur not said here | the kingdom | with king's folk | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kingdom=Initial_Location |
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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