Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 59
Should ye ride thus through the land, and fight with every knight whom ye may meet, ye will need great good fortune to win every conflict without mischance or ill-hap!
Who acts: ye · What happens: ride, fight, meet, need, win · To what, where: land, knight, great good fortune, conflict
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 (ye), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ride | aux |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 ride | nsubj |
| 3 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 ride | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ride | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fight | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fight | cc |
| 10 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ride | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 knight | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 knight | det |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fight | obl |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 meet | obj |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 meet | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 meet | aux |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 knight | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 need | punct |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 need | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 need | aux |
| 21 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ride | parataxis |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fortune | amod |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fortune | amod |
| 24 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 need | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 win | mark |
| 26 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 need | advcl |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 conflict | det |
| 28 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 win | obj |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 mischance | case |
| 30 | mischance | mischance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 win | obl |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 hap | cc |
| 32 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hap | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 ill | punct |
| 34 | hap | hap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mischance | conj |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | should | ye | the land | thus property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through land=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fight | present | ye not said here | with every knight | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with knight=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | may | ye | every knight | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | need | future | ye | great good fortune | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fortune=Theme | ||||
| 5 | win | to-infinitive | ye not said here | every conflict | without mischance or ill hap | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conflict=Eventuality |
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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