Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 91

The smith that wrought their weapons I say he wrought them not amiss, he merited a fairer reward than Arthur ever gave to any man for such desert.

Who acts: smith, Arthur · What happens: wrought, say, merit, give · To what, where: weapons, fairer reward, man · 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 (smith, Arthur), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smith	det
2	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wrought	nsubj
4	wrought	wrought	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smith	acl:relcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 weapons	nmod:poss
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrought	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrought	nsubj
10	wrought	wrought	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrought	obj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 amiss	advmod
13	amiss	amiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wrought	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 merited	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 merited	nsubj
16	merited	merit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wrought	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 reward	det
18	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 reward	amod
19	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 merited	obj
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 gave	mark
21	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 gave	nsubj
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 gave	advmod
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 merited	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 man	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 desert	case
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 desert	amod
29	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wrought	past	the smith	sparks's weapons				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the smith				I nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wrought	past	smith	weapons = weapon			amiss property	tree rules
4	merit	past	smith	a fairer reward				tree rules
5	give	past	Arthur		any man for such desert	ever		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 91

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 91