Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 12
There did a knight lose his life, he and his wife with him; well did they deserve that their memory should be held in honour by the friends of our Lord, for they made a right good ending!
Who acts: knight, steeds, friends · What happens: do, lose, deserve, hold, make · To what, where: life, memory, honour, right good ending
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, steeds, friends), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 did | expl |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lose | nsubj |
| 5 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lose | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wife | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 he | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 deserve | punct |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 deserve | advmod |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 deserve | aux |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 deserve | nsubj |
| 19 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 held | mark |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 memory | nmod:poss |
| 22 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 held | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 held | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 held | aux:pass |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 deserve | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 honour | case |
| 27 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 held | obl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 friends | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 friends | det |
| 30 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 held | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Lord | case |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 33 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 friends | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 made | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 made | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 made | nsubj |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 held | parataxis |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 ending | det |
| 39 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ending | amod |
| 40 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ending | amod |
| 41 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | obj |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | knight | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | infinitive | a knight | knight's life | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | deserve | past · do-support | steeds = steed | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | should · passive | the friends of our Lord | steeds's memory | honour | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in honour=Location | |||
| 5 | make | past | steeds = steed | a right good ending | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ending=Product |
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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