Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 43
An I hear ye make further boast of seeking knights I shall owe ye small thanks.
Who acts: I, ye, seeking knights · What happens: hear, make, seek, owe, boast · To what, where: ye, further boast
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, ye, seeking knights), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hear | det |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hear | xcomp |
| 6 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boast | amod |
| 7 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 knights | case |
| 9 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 knights | amod |
| 10 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 boast | nmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 owe | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 owe | aux |
| 13 | owe | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 knights | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 owe | obj |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thanks | amod |
| 16 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 owe | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | I | ye | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | ye not said here | further boast of seeking knights | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boast=Product | ||||
| 3 | seek | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | owe | shall | I | ye | small thanks obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | |||
| 5 | boast | seeking knights | nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=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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