Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 37
Doth he live, God send him mocking (this I pray in all humility), but an he be already dead, then may God forgive him his sins.
Who acts: Sir, God, this · What happens: live, send, mock, pray, be, forgive · To what, where: Sir, humility
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, God, this), 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 | Doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 send | punct |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 send | nsubj |
| 6 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 live | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 send | obj |
| 8 | mocking | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 send | obj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 pray | nsubj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pray | nsubj |
| 12 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 humility | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 humility | det |
| 15 | humility | humility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pray | obl |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dead | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 dead | cc |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dead | det |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dead | nsubj |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 dead | cop |
| 22 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 dead | advmod |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 live | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forgive | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 forgive | advmod |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 forgive | aux |
| 27 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 forgive | nsubj |
| 28 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 live | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 forgive | obj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sins | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 forgive | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · do-support | Sir | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | infinitive | God | Sir | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mock | gerund | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pray | present | this | all humility | I nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 5 | is | infinitive | Sir | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | forgive | may | God | Sir | then | Sir's sins obj | 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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