Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 47
Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By my good days, nevermore will I be wrathful, nor bear rancour against ye for any lack of courtesy; ye need no longer stand on guard against me, my heart is not evil towards ye, and we will counsel ye well."
Who acts: Sir, ye, heart, we · What happens: be, need, stand, not be, counsel, lack · To what, where: guard, ye, courtesy
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, ye, heart, we), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lancelot | compound |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 days | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
| 6 | By | by | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 days | nmod:poss |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wrathful | punct |
| 11 | nevermore | nevermore | ADV | _ | 15 wrathful | advmod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wrathful | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wrathful | nsubj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wrathful | cop |
| 15 | wrathful | wrathful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rancour | punct |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 rancour | cc |
| 18 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rancour | compound |
| 19 | rancour | rancour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrathful | obl |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 ye | case |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 rancour | nmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 lack | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 lack | det |
| 24 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rancour | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 courtesy | case |
| 26 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lack | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 need | punct |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 need | nsubj |
| 29 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wrathful | conj |
| 30 | no | no | ADV | _ | 31 longer | advmod |
| 31 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 stand | advmod |
| 32 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 need | advcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 guard | case |
| 34 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stand | obl |
| 35 | against | against | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 stand | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 evil | punct |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 heart | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 evil | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 evil | cop |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 evil | advmod |
| 42 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 stand | conj |
| 43 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 44 ye | case |
| 44 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 evil | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 counsel | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 counsel | cc |
| 47 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 counsel | nsubj |
| 48 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 counsel | aux |
| 49 | counsel | counsel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 need | conj |
| 50 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 49 counsel | obj |
| 51 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 49 counsel | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | Sir | bear rancour against ye for any lack of courtesy obl; nevermore, wrathful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | ye | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | present | ye not said here | guard | against Sir; long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location | |||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | my heart | towards ye; evil property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | counsel speech: other in a quote | future | we | ye | well property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | |||
| 7 | lack in a quote | courtesy | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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