Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 33
But ere he departed he sware to her that he would return when he had achieved his quest; but he kept not his oath.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: depart, sware, return, achieve, not keep, quest · To what, where: Nor, quest, oath
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 departed | cc |
| 2 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 4 departed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 departed | nsubj |
| 4 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sware | nsubj |
| 6 | sware | sware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 departed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 departed | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 return | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 return | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 return | aux |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 departed | advcl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 achieved | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 achieved | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 achieved | aux |
| 16 | achieved | achieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 return | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 quest | nmod:poss |
| 18 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 achieved | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 kept | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 kept | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kept | nsubj |
| 22 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 departed | conj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 kept | advmod |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 oath | nmod:poss |
| 25 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kept | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | Sir | Nor | ere property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sware | Sir | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | return | would | Sir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | achieve | past · perfect | Sir | Sir's quest | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not keep | past | Sir | Sir's oath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme | ||||
| 6 | quest | Sir | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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