Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 38
And the king said: "Sir Kay, let this talk be; ye should of right be shamed when ye hear the Welshman's name!
Who acts: king, Sir, talk, ye, Welshman · What happens: say, let, be, shame, hear, name · To what, where: talk, right, name · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, Sir, talk, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sir | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sir | punct |
| 7 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 let | nsubj |
| 8 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sir | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 talk | det |
| 12 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 shamed | punct |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 should | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 shamed | aux |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 shamed | mark |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shamed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 shamed | aux:pass |
| 20 | shamed | shame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 hear | mark |
| 22 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 hear | nsubj |
| 23 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 shamed | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Welshman | det |
| 25 | Welshman | Welshman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Welshman | case |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hear | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | Sir | this talk | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | infinitive | this talk not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shame in a quote | should · passive | right | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | hear in a quote | present | ye | the Welshman's name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | name in a quote | the Welshman | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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