Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 42
Did I meet mine own brother, I would not break mine oath, nor my vow; and till now have I kept it well, nor broken it by my default.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: meet, not break, have, keep, break, vow · To what, where: mine, 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 (I, my), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 meet | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 meet | nsubj |
| 3 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 meet | obj |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meet | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 break | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 break | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 break | advmod |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 meet | conj |
| 12 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 break | obj |
| 13 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 break | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vow | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 vow | cc |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 vow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 oath | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 20 | till | till | ADV | _ | 22 have | advmod |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 have | advmod |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 meet | parataxis |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 kept | nsubj |
| 24 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kept | obj |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 kept | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 broken | punct |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 broken | cc |
| 29 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 kept | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 broken | obj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 default | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 default | nmod:poss |
| 33 | default | default | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 broken | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · do-support | I | mine | own brother obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not break | would | I | mine | oath nor my vow obj | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent my=Patient oath=Result | |||
| 3 | have | present | now | till property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | I | oath | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | break | participle | I not said here | oath | by my default | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | |||
| 6 | vow | my | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | default | my | nom default «act 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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