Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 62
It hath chanced afore this that I had lost crown and lands, save for my knights; by them have I been victorious!"
Who acts: I · What happens: chance, lose, save, have, be · To what, where: honour, that
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chanced | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chanced | aux:pass |
| 3 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | afore | afore | ADP | _ | 10 crown | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 crown | det |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | aux |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 crown | amod |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chanced | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lands | cc |
| 12 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crown | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chanced | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 knights | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 knights | nmod:poss |
| 17 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 save | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | obl |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chanced | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 victorious | nsubj |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 victorious | cop |
| 24 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 have | xcomp |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 victorious | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | present · passive | honour | afore this lost crown and lands | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect · passive | that | I nsubj | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | for my knights | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for knight=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | have | present | by things = thing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | participle | I | victorious property | 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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