Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 63
Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By the Lord who made me, and who shall be Doom's-man at the last day, come what may thereof, since Sir Gawain rideth hence 'tis not I will bide behind!
Who acts: Quoth Lancelot, Sir, ye · What happens: make, be, come, ride, not bide · To what, where: ye, Doom's man, tis
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 Lancelot, Sir, 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lancelot | compound |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 6 | By | by | ADP | _ | 8 Lord | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lord | det |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 man | cc |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 man | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 man | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 man | cop |
| 17 | Doom's | Doom's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 man | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Doom's | punct |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 man | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | parataxis |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 come | advcl |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 what | aux |
| 28 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 27 may | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rideth | punct |
| 30 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 33 rideth | mark |
| 31 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 rideth | nsubj |
| 32 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Sir | flat |
| 33 | rideth | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | parataxis |
| 34 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 33 rideth | advmod |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 tis | punct |
| 36 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rideth | obl |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 bide | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 bide | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 bide | aux |
| 40 | bide | bide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 rideth | advcl |
| 41 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 40 bide | advmod |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | Quoth Lancelot Sir | ye | by the Lord; who nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | shall | Doom's man | day | who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | what advcl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ride in a quote | present | Sir | tis | hence property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | not bide in a quote | future | ye | behind 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/63/