Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 79
Quoth Sir Lancelot: "I were liefer dead than that a knight should force me to do that to which I had no mind--so were the shame equal.
Who acts: Quoth Lancelot, knight, Sir, shame · What happens: be, force, do, have · To what, where: Sir, that, mind
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, knight, Sir, shame), 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 | 8 liefer | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 liefer | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 liefer | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 liefer | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 liefer | cop |
| 8 | liefer | lief | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 liefer | amod |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 force | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 force | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knight | det |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 force | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 force | aux |
| 15 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 liefer | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 force | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 force | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 had | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | advcl |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 mind | det |
| 25 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 equal | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 equal | advmod |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 equal | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shame | det |
| 30 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 equal | nsubj |
| 31 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 liefer | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 liefer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Quoth Lancelot Sir | I nsubj; lief property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | force in a quote | should | a knight | Sir | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Sir not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | Sir | no mind | which obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | the shame | equal 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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