Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 58
With these words up sprang Sir Lancelot of the Lake, and stepped forward, and spake, and said he would adventure himself and take what fortune should send, and go seek Perceval hither and thither through all lands; "And may I but find that proud knight, an it lieth in my power, hither will I bring him!
Who acts: Lancelot, fortune, I · What happens: spring, step forward, say, adventure, take, send · To what, where: Lancelot, spake, Perceval, lands, proud knight, power · 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 (Lancelot, fortune, I), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sprang | obl |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 sprang | advmod |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Lake | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lake | det |
| 10 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lancelot | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stepped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stepped | cc |
| 13 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | conj |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 stepped | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spake | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spake | cc |
| 17 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stepped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 adventure | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 adventure | aux |
| 23 | adventure | adventure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 adventure | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 take | cc |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 adventure | conj |
| 27 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 28 fortune | det |
| 28 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 send | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 send | aux |
| 30 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 take | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 go | cc |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | parataxis |
| 34 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 go | xcomp |
| 35 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 seek | obj |
| 36 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 34 seek | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 thither | cc |
| 38 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 36 hither | conj |
| 39 | through | through | ADP | _ | 41 lands | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 lands | det |
| 41 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 seek | obl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 44 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 find | cc |
| 45 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 find | aux |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 find | nsubj |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 48 find | cc |
| 48 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | conj |
| 49 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 knight | mark |
| 50 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 knight | amod |
| 51 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 find | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 lieth | punct |
| 53 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 lieth | det |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 lieth | nsubj |
| 55 | lieth | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 knight | acl:relcl |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 power | case |
| 57 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 power | nmod:poss |
| 58 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 lieth | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 bring | punct |
| 60 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 63 bring | advmod |
| 61 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 63 bring | aux |
| 62 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 63 bring | nsubj |
| 63 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 lieth | conj |
| 64 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 bring | obj |
| 65 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | Lancelot Sir of the Lake | with this words | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location lancelot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step forward | past | spake | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | adventure | would | Lancelot | Lancelot | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | Lancelot not said here | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 6 | send | should | what fortune | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | seek | infinitive | Perceval | all lands; thither | hither property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent perceval=Theme through land=Location | |||
| 9 | find in a quote | may | I | proud knight | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Topic | ||||
| 10 | lie in a quote | present | fortune | proud knight not said here | my power | tree rules | |||
| 11 | bring in a quote | future | I | Perceval | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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