Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 44
Otherwise let us end this matter even as we began it, for there liveth no knight under the sun for whom I would break mine oath, were it for my hurt, or for my profit."
Who acts: you, us, we, I, my · What happens: let, end, begin, live, break, be · To what, where: us, matter, knight, sun, 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 (you, us, we, I), 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 | Otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 2 let | advmod |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 matter | det |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | obj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 began | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 began | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 began | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 liveth | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 liveth | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 liveth | expl |
| 15 | liveth | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | parataxis |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 knight | det |
| 17 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 liveth | obj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 sun | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sun | det |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 liveth | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 whom | case |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 break | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 break | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 break | aux |
| 25 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 liveth | advcl |
| 26 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 break | obj |
| 27 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 break | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 break | punct |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 it | cop |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 liveth | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 hurt | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hurt | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 liveth | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 profit | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 profit | cc |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 profit | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 profit | nmod:poss |
| 38 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 liveth | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | otherwise property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | end | infinitive | us not said here | this matter | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality matter=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | we | matter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | live | present | no knight | the sun; there | for my hurt; my profit conj | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme knight=Location | |||
| 5 | break | would | I | mine | whom obl; oath obj | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent my=Patient oath=Result | |||
| 6 | is a | past | oath | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | hurt | my | nom hurt «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | profit | my | nom profit «possession 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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