Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 22
But from me did he receive no blow that might turn to his loss.
Who acts: knight, blow · What happens: receive, turn · To what, where: blow, loss
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 (knight, blow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 receive | cc |
| 2 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 receive | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 receive | nsubj |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 blow | det |
| 8 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 turn | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 turn | aux |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 blow | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 loss | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 loss | nmod:poss |
| 14 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · do-support | knight | no blow | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | might | no blow | knight's loss | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to loss=Trajectory |
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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