Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 48
By this was Sir Agloval whole, who had been wounded, and Morien asked him straightway if he were rightly healed, and would now keep the oath which he had aforetime sworn unto his mother.
Who acts: this, Morien · What happens: be, ask, heal, keep, swear · To what, where: straightway, Sir, Morien, oath
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 (this, Morien), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 Sir | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Sir | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Sir | cop |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 whole | obl |
| 5 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 whole | compound |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wounded | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 wounded | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wounded | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 wounded | cop |
| 11 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whole | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 14 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whole | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 healed | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 healed | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 healed | aux:pass |
| 21 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 22 healed | advmod |
| 22 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 asked | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 keep | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 keep | cc |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 keep | aux |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 keep | advmod |
| 27 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 whole | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 oath | det |
| 29 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keep | obj |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 sworn | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sworn | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sworn | aux |
| 33 | aforetime | aforetime | ADV | _ | 34 sworn | advmod |
| 34 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 oath | acl:relcl |
| 35 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 37 mother | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sworn | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | by Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | who nsubj; wounded property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Morien | straightway | Sir | tree rules | |||
| 4 | heal a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | Morien | rightly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | keep | would | the oath | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme | ||||
| 6 | swear | past · perfect · passive | the oath | unto Morien's mother; Morien nsubj; aforetime property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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