Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 24
And more will I tell ye; it chanced aforetime as ye may now learn, when he came into the land of the Moors; there through his valiant deeds he won the heart of a maiden, she was my mother, by my troth.
Who acts: I, straightway, ye, Sir, valiant · What happens: tell, chance, learn, come, deed, win · To what, where: ye, land, heart · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, straightway, ye, Sir), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 tell | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 chanced | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 chanced | nsubj |
| 9 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | aforetime | aforetime | ADV | _ | 9 chanced | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 learn | mark |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 learn | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 learn | aux |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 learn | advmod |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 chanced | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 learn | advcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Moors | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Moors | det |
| 25 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 land | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 deeds | punct |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 deeds | advmod |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 deeds | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 valiant | nmod:poss |
| 30 | valiant | valiant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 deeds | nsubj |
| 31 | deeds | deed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | conj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 won | nsubj |
| 33 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 deeds | ccomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 heart | det |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 won | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 mother | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 mother | det |
| 38 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 mother | amod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 mother | punct |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 mother | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 mother | cop |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 mother | nmod:poss |
| 43 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 heart | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 troth | punct |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 troth | case |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 troth | nmod:poss |
| 47 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 deeds | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | chance | past | straightway | aforetime property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | may | ye | now | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Sir | the land of the Moors | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | deed | present | Sir's valiant | there | by my troth | tree rules | |||
| 6 | win | past | Sir | the heart | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | is | past | valiant | of my maiden mother; my nmod:poss | 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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