Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 75
Now do I pray God in words straitly, that He have mercy upon me when my life shall come to an end, and bring my soul to His heavenly kingdom.
Who acts: I, God, life · What happens: pray, have, come, bring · To what, where: God, words, mercy, end, soul, heavenly 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 (I, God, life), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pray | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pray | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pray | nsubj |
| 4 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pray | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pray | obl |
| 8 | straitly | straitly | ADV | _ | 4 pray | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pray | parataxis |
| 13 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 mercy | nmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 come | advmod |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 end | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 end | det |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bring | cc |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 soul | nmod:poss |
| 28 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 kingdom | case |
| 30 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 31 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 kingdom | amod |
| 32 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present · do-support | I | God | words | now | straitly property | tree rules | |
| 2 | have | present | God | mercy | upon me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | shall | my life | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | God not said here | my soul | life's heavenly kingdom | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soul=Theme to kingdom=Destination |
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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