Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 66
With that he pledged to the knights hand and knighthood, and called God to witness that he would do their bidding, faithfully, and without dispute, so long as he might live.
Who acts: steed, knight · What happens: pledge, call, do, live, bid · To what, where: knights hand, God, bidding · Speech: someone speaks here
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, knight), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 pledged | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pledged | nsubj |
| 4 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 7 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hand | compound |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pledged | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knighthood | cc |
| 10 | knighthood | knighthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pledged | conj |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 witness | mark |
| 16 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 called | advcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 faithfully | punct |
| 24 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dispute | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dispute | cc |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 dispute | case |
| 28 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pledged | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 long | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 long | advmod |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 pledged | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 live | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 live | nsubj |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 live | aux |
| 35 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 long | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pledge | past | steed | the knights hand and knighthood | with that; without dispute; long property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to hand=Recipient | |||
| 2 | call | past | steed not said here | God | witness xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent god=Recipient | |||
| 3 | do | would | steed | knight's bidding | faithfully property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | live | might | steed | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bid | knight | nom bidding «communication transitive»: 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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