Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 10
Sir Lancelot spake: "Of a sooth, an ye had not thus charged me I should have avenged myself or here been slain, in that this knight forced the strife upon me without cause, and loaded me with blows; but in that ye so conjure me, I am he that will harm no man for profit to myself save that he first attack me.
Who acts: ye, Gawain, knight · What happens: have, not charge, avenge, be, force, load · To what, where: Gawain, slain, strife, that, Sir spake
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Gawain, knight), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spake | compound |
| 2 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 sooth | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sooth | punct |
| 6 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sooth | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sooth | det |
| 8 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spake | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 an | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sooth | appos |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 an | acl:relcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 charged | advmod |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 charged | advmod |
| 15 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 charged | iobj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 avenged | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 avenged | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 avenged | aux |
| 20 | avenged | avenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 charged | conj |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 avenged | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 slain | cc |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 slain | advmod |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 slain | cop |
| 25 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 avenged | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 forced | punct |
| 27 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 31 forced | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 forced | mark |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 knight | det |
| 30 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 forced | nsubj |
| 31 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 avenged | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 strife | det |
| 33 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 forced | obj |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 me | case |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 forced | obl |
| 36 | without | without | ADP | _ | 37 cause | case |
| 37 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 forced | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 loaded | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 loaded | cc |
| 40 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 forced | conj |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 loaded | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 blows | case |
| 43 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 loaded | obl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 conjure | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 50 conjure | cc |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 that | case |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 conjure | obl |
| 48 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 50 conjure | nsubj |
| 49 | so | so | ADV | _ | 50 conjure | advmod |
| 50 | conjure | conjure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | parataxis |
| 51 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 conjure | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 harm | punct |
| 53 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 harm | nsubj |
| 54 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 harm | cop |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 harm | nsubj |
| 56 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 58 harm | nsubj |
| 57 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 harm | aux |
| 58 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 conjure | conj |
| 59 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 60 man | det |
| 60 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 harm | obj |
| 61 | for | for | ADP | _ | 62 profit | case |
| 62 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 man | nmod |
| 63 | to | to | ADP | _ | 64 myself | case |
| 64 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 58 harm | obl |
| 65 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 harm | conj |
| 66 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 69 attack | mark |
| 67 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 69 attack | nsubj |
| 68 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 69 attack | advmod |
| 69 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 65 save | advcl |
| 70 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 69 attack | obj |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | ye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not charge in a quote | past | ye not said here | Gawain | thus property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location i=Theme | |||
| 3 | avenge in a quote | should · perfect | Gawain | Gawain | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | participle | Gawain not said here | slain | here | tree rules | |||
| 5 | force in a quote | past | this knight | the strife | upon Gawain; without cause | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strife=Recipient | |||
| 6 | load in a quote | past | this knight not said here | Gawain | with blows | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with blow=Theme | |||
| 7 | conjure in a quote | infinitive | ye | Gawain | that | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Result | |||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | Gawain | Gawain | Gawain nsubj; that nsubj; no man obj; harm property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | save in a quote | infinitive | Gawain not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | attack in a quote | infinitive | Gawain | Gawain | first property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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