Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 65
An my steed fail me not I shall ride whither ye bid me to this king whom ye praise so highly."
Who acts: steed, I, ye · What happens: not fail, ride, bid, praise · To what, where: me, king
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 (steed, I, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 steed | det |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 steed | nmod:poss |
| 3 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fail | nsubj |
| 4 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fail | obj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fail | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ride | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ride | aux |
| 9 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fail | parataxis |
| 10 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 bid | advmod |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 bid | nsubj |
| 12 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ride | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bid | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bid | obl |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 praise | obj |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 praise | nsubj |
| 19 | praise | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 king | acl:relcl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 highly | advmod |
| 21 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 12 bid | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail | infinitive | my steed | me | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ride | shall | I | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bid | past | ye | me | to this king; highly, whither property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | praise | present | ye | this king | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
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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