Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 6
Wot ye that I be afraid to fight against the twain of ye; or that I have held my hand through fear of death?
Who acts: Wot, I · What happens: be, fight, hold, fear · To what, where: hand, fear, death
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 (Wot, 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 | Wot | Wot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 afraid | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 afraid | cop |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fight | mark |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 afraid | xcomp |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 twain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 twain | det |
| 11 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fight | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ye | case |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 twain | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 held | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 held | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 held | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 held | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 held | aux |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 afraid | ccomp |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | obj |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 fear | case |
| 23 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 death | case |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fear | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | Wot | ye nsubj; I nsubj; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | Wot not said here | against the twain of ye | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hold | present · perfect | I | my hand | fear of death | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme through fear=Location | |||
| 4 | fear | death | nom fear «feeling 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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