Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 8
Then spake the knight to the king, who stood before him: "That will I tell ye, for I am sworn and pledged thereto. '
Who acts: you, king, That · What happens: speak, stand, tell, swear, pledge · To what, where: knight, ye, I · 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 (you, king, That), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | acl:relcl |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 15 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spake | conj |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sworn | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 sworn | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 sworn | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sworn | aux:pass |
| 24 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tell | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pledged | cc |
| 26 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 sworn | conj |
| 27 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 26 pledged | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the knight | then | to the king | tree rules | ||
| 2 | stand | past | the king | before knight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | That | ye | I nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | |||
| 4 | swear in a quote | present · passive | I | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | pledge in a quote | participle | thereto property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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