Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 89
Then each drew his sword from its sheath, and set to work therewith, and of a sooth, had not God Himself so willed it both had died there; so mighty were their strokes that by right no man should escape alive.
Who acts: each, Sir, man · What happens: draw, set, work, have, will, die · To what, where: sword, sheath, God, mighty strokes
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 (each, Sir, man), 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 | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sheath | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drew | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 work | mark |
| 13 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 set | xcomp |
| 14 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 13 work | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sooth | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sooth | det |
| 19 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sooth | punct |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 God | advmod |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | Himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 willed | nsubj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 willed | advmod |
| 26 | willed | will | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 had | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 willed | obj |
| 28 | both | both | ADV | _ | 30 died | advmod |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 died | aux |
| 30 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 willed | advcl |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 died | advmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 strokes | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 mighty | advmod |
| 34 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 strokes | amod |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 strokes | cop |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 strokes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | obl |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 escape | obj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 right | case |
| 40 | right | right | ADV | _ | 44 escape | advmod |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 man | det |
| 42 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 escape | nsubj |
| 43 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 escape | aux |
| 44 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 strokes | acl:relcl |
| 45 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 escape | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | each | Sir's sword | sword's sheath | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme from sheath=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | set | infinitive | each not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | each not said here | therewith property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | each not said here | God | of a sooth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Patient | |||
| 5 | will | past | Sir | sword | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | die | past · perfect | Sir not said here | there | both property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 7 | is a | past | devil's mighty strokes | devil nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | escape | should | no man | devil's mighty strokes | alive, right property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Initial_Location |
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/pg8447/2/89/