Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 41

So did I cause myself to be dubbed knight, and sware a great oath (I were loth to break it) that never should I meet a knight but I would fight him, or he should tell me if he perchance knew any tidings of my father, that I might learn somewhat concerning him.

Who acts: I, Sir · What happens: cause, dub, sware, be, break, not meet · To what, where: myself, knight, great oath, oath, that, Sir · 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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 cause	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 cause	nsubj
4	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 cause	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 dubbed	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 dubbed	aux:pass
8	dubbed	dub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cause	advcl
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dubbed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sware	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sware	cc
12	sware	sware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 oath	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 oath	amod
15	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sware	obj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 loth	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 loth	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 loth	cop
19	loth	loth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 oath	appos
20	to	to	PART	_	21 break	mark
21	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 loth	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 break	obj
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 loth	punct
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 meet	obj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 meet	advmod
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 meet	aux
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 meet	nsubj
28	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 oath	appos
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 knight	det
30	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 meet	obj
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 fight	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 fight	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 fight	aux
34	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sware	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fight	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tell	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 tell	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tell	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 tell	aux
40	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sware	conj
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 tell	iobj
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 knew	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 knew	nsubj
44	perchance	perchance	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 he	flat
45	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 tell	ccomp
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	47 tidings	det
47	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 knew	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 father	case
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 father	nmod:poss
50	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 tidings	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 learn	punct
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 learn	mark
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 learn	nsubj
54	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 learn	aux
55	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 knew	conj
56	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	57 concerning	advmod
57	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 learn	advcl
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 concerning	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cause	past · do-support	I	myself			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition myself=Patient
2	dub	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here	knight			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: knight=Result
3	sware	infinitive		a great oath			tree rules
4	is	past	I			loth property	tree rules
5	break	to-infinitive	I not said here	oath			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
6	not meet	should	I	that		a knight obj	tree rules
7	fight	would	I	Sir			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
8	tell speech: assert	should	Sir		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
9	know a condition, not said to happen	past	Sir	any tidings of my father			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus
10	learn	might	I				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	concern	gerund	I not said here	Sir		somewhat property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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 3, sentence 41

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 41