Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 81
Be courteous and of gentle bearing to all ye meet who be well-mannered toward ye, and he who hath no love for virtue against him spare neither sword, nor spear, nor shield!"
Who acts: you, ye, Sir · What happens: be, meet, have, spare · To what, where: love, sword
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 (you, ye, 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 courteous | cop |
| 2 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 meet | cc |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bearing | case |
| 5 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bearing | amod |
| 6 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 bearing | nmod |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 meet | nsubj |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 courteous | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 mannered | nsubj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mannered | cop |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 mannered | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 15 | mannered | mannered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 meet | ccomp |
| 16 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 17 ye | case |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 mannered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hath | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hath | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hath | nsubj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 hath | nsubj |
| 22 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 courteous | parataxis |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 love | det |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hath | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 virtue | case |
| 26 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 love | nmod |
| 27 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 virtue | nmod |
| 29 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 hath | conj |
| 30 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 sword | det |
| 31 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spare | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 spear | punct |
| 33 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 34 spear | cc |
| 34 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 courteous | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 shield | punct |
| 36 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 37 shield | cc |
| 37 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 courteous | conj |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 courteous | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 courteous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | spear conj; shield conj; courteous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | infinitive | ye | of gentle bearing to all | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | toward ye; who nsubj; mannered, well property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | present | Sir | no love | for virtue against Gawain; who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | |||
| 5 | spare | infinitive | Sir not said here | neither sword | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent sword=Asset |
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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