Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 16
Then must I fare through the land; and did I meet folk (though at first I shamed me) whomsoever I met, whether pilgrim or merchant, did he bear goods or money with him, so did I deal with him that I won it for myself.
Who acts: I, pilgrim · What happens: fare, meet, shame, bear, deal, win · To what, where: land, folk, me, whomsoever, goods
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pilgrim), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fare | advmod |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fare | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fare | nsubj |
| 4 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fare | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 meet | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 meet | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 meet | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | nsubj |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fare | parataxis |
| 13 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 shamed | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 shamed | mark |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 first | case |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 shamed | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 shamed | nsubj |
| 19 | shamed | shame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 meet | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 shamed | obj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 shamed | punct |
| 22 | whomsoever | whomsoever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 met | nsubj |
| 24 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 whomsoever | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bear | punct |
| 26 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 33 bear | mark |
| 27 | pilgrim | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bear | nsubj |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 merchant | cc |
| 29 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pilgrim | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pilgrim | punct |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 bear | aux |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bear | nsubj |
| 33 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 meet | conj |
| 34 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 33 bear | obj |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 money | cc |
| 36 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 goods | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 money | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 deal | punct |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 deal | advmod |
| 41 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 deal | aux |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 deal | nsubj |
| 43 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 meet | conj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 deal | obl |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 won | mark |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 won | nsubj |
| 48 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 deal | advcl |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 won | obj |
| 50 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 myself | case |
| 51 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 48 won | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare | must | I | the land | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet | past · do-support | I | folk | whomsoever obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | shame | past | I | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | I | whomsoever not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whomsoever=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | bear | past · do-support | pilgrim or merchant | goods or money with poverty | poverty nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Patient | |||
| 6 | deal | past · do-support | I | with poverty | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | win | past | I | whomsoever | for myself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for myself=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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