Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 76
Such good knights as ye be, since ye at this time fare to seek my father, by the power of our Lord I will not stay behind; 'twere shame an I did.
Who acts: Such good knights, power, I · What happens: be, seek, not stay, do · To what, where: time fare, father, twere shame
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 (Such good knights, power, 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knights | amod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knights | amod |
| 3 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fare | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 ye | case |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 knights | nmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fare | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fare | punct |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 13 fare | mark |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 fare | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 fare | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fare | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fare | compound |
| 13 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 seek | mark |
| 15 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fare | acl |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seek | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 power | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 power | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 power | det |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stay | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Lord | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 power | nmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 stay | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 stay | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 stay | advmod |
| 28 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seek | ccomp |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 28 stay | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 shame | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 shame | punct |
| 32 | twere | twere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shame | compound |
| 33 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fare | conj |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 did | det |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 did | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 shame | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | Such good knights as ye | this time fare and twere shame | ye nsubj; twere shame conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | my father | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not stay | future | the power of our Lord | I nsubj; behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | I | twere shame not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=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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