Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 40
There were ye ill-counselled; ye thought to bring him without his will, but the knight was not so feeble, he gave ye a blow that brake your collar-bone and thrust ye from your steed, feet upward, with little honour!
Who acts: ye, knight, blow · What happens: be, counsell, think, bring, not be, give · To what, where: Perceval, blow, ye
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 (ye, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 counselled | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 6 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 were | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 will | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 will | nmod:poss |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feeble | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 feeble | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 knight | det |
| 19 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feeble | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 feeble | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 feeble | advmod |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 feeble | advmod |
| 23 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 feeble | conj |
| 27 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 gave | iobj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 blow | det |
| 29 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 brake | nsubj |
| 31 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 blow | acl:relcl |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bone | nmod:poss |
| 33 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bone | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 collar | punct |
| 35 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brake | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thrust | cc |
| 37 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bone | conj |
| 38 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 bone | nsubj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 steed | case |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 steed | nmod:poss |
| 41 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brake | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 feet | punct |
| 43 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 feeble | conj |
| 44 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 23 feeble | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 honour | punct |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 honour | case |
| 47 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 honour | amod |
| 48 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feeble | conj |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | ye | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | counsell | participle | ye not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | ye | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | ye not said here | Perceval | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | the knight | feet conj; little honour conj; feeble, upward property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | give | past | knight | a blow | ye | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient blow=Theme | |||
| 7 | break | present | a blow | from your steed | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from steed=Co-Patient | ||||
| 8 | bone | ye | your nmod:poss; thrust conj | 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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