Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 79
But he that is fierce and fell towards ye or towards another, on him shall ye prove your prowess, and humble his pride, if ye may.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: be, fall, prove, humble, pride · To what, where: ye, prowess, pride
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 (Sir), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 fierce | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fierce | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fierce | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fierce | cop |
| 5 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fierce | conj |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 ye | case |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 fell | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 another | cc |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 ye | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prove | punct |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 18 prove | mark |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 prove | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 prove | aux |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 prove | nsubj |
| 18 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fell | advcl |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 prowess | nmod:poss |
| 20 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prove | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 humble | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 humble | cc |
| 23 | humble | humble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pride | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 humble | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 may | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 may | mark |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 may | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 humble | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fierce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sir | that nsubj; fierce property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Sir not said here | ye | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards ye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | prove | shall | Sir | your prowess | ye nsubj | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prowess=Theme | |||
| 4 | humble | past | Sir not said here | Sir's pride | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pride=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | pride | Sir | nom pride «feeling 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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