Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 50
Gentle and courteous is he to all the world, rich and poor, so long as men do him no wrong, but let his temper be changed, and nowhere shall ye find his fellow!"
Who acts: Perceval, men, temper, ye · What happens: be, do, let, change, find, temper · To what, where: Perceval, temper, fellow
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 (Perceval, men, temper, 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 | Gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 world | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 courteous | cc |
| 3 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Gentle | conj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 world | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 world | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 world | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rich | punct |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 world | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 poor | cc |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rich | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 let | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 let | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 wrong | det |
| 22 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 do | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 let | cc |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 world | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 temper | nmod:poss |
| 27 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 let | obj |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 changed | aux:pass |
| 29 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 let | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 find | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 find | cc |
| 32 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 find | advmod |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | aux |
| 34 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 find | nsubj |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 let | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 37 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | obj |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Perceval | to all Gentle world | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | men | Perceval | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Perceval not said here | Perceval's temper | long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | change | infinitive · passive | Perceval's temper not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | find | shall | ye | Perceval's fellow | nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Topic | |||
| 6 | temper | Perceval | nom temper «feeling 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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