Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 46
Quoth Sir Gawain, "Ye mind me of an old saying, Sir Kay, how if some men grow old, and God should spare them even to an hundred years, then would they be but the more foolish--such an one, methinks, are ye!
Who acts: Quoth, men, God, Grail · What happens: mind, grow, spare, be · To what, where: ye, Grail
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 (Quoth, men, God, Grail), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mind | nsubj |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quoth | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
| 6 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 mind | nsubj |
| 7 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mind | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 saying | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 saying | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 saying | amod |
| 12 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mind | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Kay | punct |
| 14 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kay | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 saying | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grow | punct |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 grow | advmod |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 grow | mark |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 men | det |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grow | nsubj |
| 21 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Kay | acl:relcl |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grow | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spare | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spare | cc |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 spare | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 spare | aux |
| 27 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mind | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spare | obj |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 years | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 years | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 years | det |
| 32 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 years | nummod |
| 33 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spare | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 foolish | punct |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 foolish | advmod |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 foolish | aux |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 foolish | nsubj |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 foolish | cop |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 foolish | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 more | det |
| 41 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 42 foolish | advmod |
| 42 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mind | parataxis |
| 43 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 46 one | punct |
| 44 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 one | det:predet |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 one | det |
| 46 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 foolish | parataxis |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 methinks | punct |
| 48 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 one | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 ye | punct |
| 50 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 ye | cop |
| 51 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 mind | advcl |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind in a quote | infinitive | Quoth | ye | of a old saying; Ye nsubj | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | some men | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spare in a quote | should | God | Grail | year | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Asset | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | would | Grail | then | such one and methinks parataxis; foolish property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Quoth not said here | ye | 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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