Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 53
Your son is so good a knight, and stout a warrior, that ye may well thank heaven that ye begat him.
Who acts: son, that, ye · What happens: be, stout, thank, begat · To what, where: warrior, heaven
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 (son, that, ye), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stout | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stout | cc |
| 10 | stout | stout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 warrior | det |
| 12 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stout | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thank | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 thank | nsubj:outer |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 thank | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 thank | aux |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 thank | advmod |
| 18 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 good | parataxis |
| 19 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thank | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 begat | obj |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 begat | nsubj |
| 22 | begat | begat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heaven | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 begat | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your son | a knight nsubj; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stout | past | Your son not said here | a warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | may | that | heaven | ye nsubj; well property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | |||
| 4 | begat | past | ye | heaven | Quoth obj | 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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